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INTEC Professional Garden Design Diploma - Job Creator
 Our new INTEC Professional Garden Design Diploma
will give you skills to start and manage your own garden
design business, with specific emphasis on design plans
and specifications. It will enable you to market your
business successfully and to develop your operational
and financial skills.
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Free with your Course 
- Receive FREE drawing tools, including a French curve, circle guide, T-square and set square.*
*INTEC College reserves the right to change the kit items without prior notice. *Start your own small business
- How to start your own small business
- Record business financial transactions
- Perform value added tax calculations and complete returns
- Cost and price a product
- Complete PAYE documents
‘How to Start a Small Business’, is a skills programme that could lead to a National Qualification. In order to earn credits towards the full qualification you have the option of sitting for the ICB Summative Assessment (examination) which is set by the ICB (Institute of Certified Bookkeepers) and on successful completion you will be awarded 23 credits with the FASSET Seta.
PLEASE NOTE: Your enrolment with INTEC does not include the registration with ICB. For more information,please contact the institute for details on exam registration.
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Programme Type
The INTEC Professional Garden Diploma programme is part of the INTEC Job Creator series. The INTEC Professional Garden Design Diploma is an INTEC diploma, which is not an accredited NQF qualification.
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Entrance Requirement
INTEC Garden Design Certificate or Grade 10 (Std. 8) or equivalent with technical drawing skills, or relevant experience in the horticulture field.
Course Outcomes
The skills and knowledge that you will gain through this course will familiarise you with the following: - Professional garden design
- Drawing master plans
- Selecting contractors
- Calculating hard landscaping quantities
- Preparing soil for planting
- Systematically identifying plants
- Fundamental Entrepreneurial and managerial qualities
- Developing a business plan
- Macro-environmental knowledge
- Basic Marketing skills
- Operational skills
- Basic Financial skills
- Assessments of general garden skills and client needs
- Visualisation skills and observation techniques
- Identification of your role as a garden designer at the initial site meeting
- Applying elements and principles of design to create functional and aesthetic garden solutions
- Producing concept plans for popular garden designs using a stepped to design approach.
- Creating garden solutions for a variety of garden scales and types, taking into account the unique challenges of each garden.
- Drawing garden designs, using tools and techniques, a step-wise approach to generating designs to scale.
- Presenting garden designs to clients.
- Communicating with clients using important drawings to promote garden designs including theme boards, elevations and sections.
- Addressing challenges in the garden and providing creative solutions.
- Providing options for low-cost gardening.
Course Duration
You should be able to complete this course within 24 months.
Course Content The course includes the following topics: - The Professional Garden Designer
- Hard Landscaping
- Design Plans and Specifications
- Soft Landscaping
- Starting a Garden Design Business
- The Garden Design Industry
- Marketing a Garden Design Business
- Financial Management of a Garden Design Business
- Operating a Garden Design Business
- The Initial Contact with a Client
- Popular Garden Styles
- The Elements and Principles of Design
- The History of Gardens
- Practical Garden Design
- Managing a Garden Project
- Creating Solutions for the Urban Garden
- Creating Aesthetic and Aesthetic Solutions for Garden Challenges
Assessment
All the required assignments must be completed and sent to the College for marking. All assignments must be successfully passed in order to obtain the award.
Award
After you successfully complete your assessments, you will receive your INTEC Professional Garden Design Diploma.
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Course Fees
Normal Price: R6,919
Web Only Price: R6,227 (save 10%)
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Please Note:
The special Web Only Price listed above is only valid if you complete the enrolment form on the INTEC website and choose one of the Payment in Full options available to you.
Your Payment in Full options are:
- Credit Card (you can use your budget facility)
- Internet Banking Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)
- Direct Deposit (at any FNB Bank Branch)
- Cheque, Postal Order or Cash (delivered or posted to one of our branches)
The Payment Plan option on our website does not qualify you for our special Web Only Prices.
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