Garden Design Part 4: How to Plan your Dream Garden: Site Assessment Guide

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This is the fourth video in the series on ‘How to Lay out a Garden’. We work out how to perform a site survey ensuring that the designs you create are to scale. We also consider other issues of the site such as aspect, boundaries, internal divisions and where to site features within the garden.

Below is the link to a good instructional video on how to measure the site by Christine Pritchard:
   • How to Measure Your Garden  

I have used the following books and videos in the research for this video:

Alexander, Rosemary. The essential garden design workbook. Second edition (2009)

Brickell, Christopher. Essential Garden Planning & Construction (2006)

Howcroft, Heidi & Majerus, Marianne. Garden Design - A book of Ideas (2015)

Kemp, Edward. How to lay out a Garden Second edition (1858)

Midgley, Kenneth. Garden Design (1984)

Strong, Roy. Creating Small Formal Gardens (1989)

Williams, Robin. The RHS The Garden Designer (2007

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0:00 Intro
2:17 Olivia’s advice
9:18 How to produce a scale drawing
17:50 Drawing out the plan
18:56 Designing in sections or as a whole?
21:04 The boundary
26:14 Orientation
34:30 The Layout
35:27 Simplicity
35:51 Division
38:25 Ways to create internal division
43:54 Practicality
45:07 Site assessment and style
48:01 Thanks and goodbye