The links here provide a structured learning course for budding landscape designers. The first part of the course is designed to show how landscape designers go about their business while the latter part is focused on assisting landscape designers who are moving from hand drafting to drafting with a computer.
Becoming a landscape designer
From hand drafting to CAD drafting
Drafting a real job – rear garden with retaining wall – metric environment
Drafting a real job – rear garden USA Imperial
Create a design from a mud map
Vertical and horizontal planes
Paving patterning and perception
Designs based on the underlying geometry
Examples of landscape designer’s work
The images below show some gardens by landscape designers.
Preliminary reading – the history of landscape design
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_landscape_architecture
Build your own library of reference books.
A list of some to help you get started.
Gardens Through the Ages
Roy Strong,
Landscaping with Australian Plants
Glenn Wilson, 1975. Published by Thomas Nelson (Australia Limited), SBN 17 –1991 8
Birdscaping Your Garden
George Martin Adams, Published by Rigby, 1980, ISBN 0 7270 1367