"T&T Gardens" wrote in message
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Greetings

I am interested in starting a career in landscape design. I would like to
use a correspondence or on-line course and would be interested in hearing
from any one who is working on or has completed such a course and would be
willing to recommend it.

Please reply to this thread.

Thank you

There are such things of course, but as a college trained professional
landscape designer myself, I have a hard time featuring how such a remote
process would be of much benefit. You will miss the opportunity of
participating in invaluable design critiques with fellow students and your
instructors, you will not have the experiential training of actually working
with real design issues - designing and installing irrigation systems,
lighting, running a bobcat and working with grades and drainage - and you
will not have the chance to develop a local and comprehensive plant
pallette.

If at all possible, I would recommend you take advantage of a more
conventional approach and get your training through an accredited college or
university - even community colleges and technical schools offer very
thorough horticultural and design programs and they often have them
available for evening study. You simply cannot get all the background and
experience you need by long distance.

Just my opinion.
pam - gardengal