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Cultivating talent

27 Sep, 2024
The September issue of Pro Landscaper celebrates 15 years of the LCGD journey and success.

As we start a new teaching year

16 Sep, 2024
As we start the new teaching year we’ve had a look back at some of the highlights of last year with students, now graduates and tutors. Take a look here.

One year in

10 Sep, 2024
Prolandscaper Magazine has published an extensive interview with our Director Nina Baxter. You can hear about her career and journey to her current role as Planting Design Diploma course leader as well as her own work in garden design. View the whole interview here.

Cultivating talent

9 Sep, 2024
The College is celebrated for 15 years of creating careers in garden design in the latest edition of the industry’s trade magazine Prolandscaper. As well as interviews with our three Directors there are also features with many industry leaders about what makes a great training in garden design and features with some of our graduates. You can see the whole article here.

LCGD Graduates shine at the Hampton Court Royal Garden Palace Festival

3 Jul, 2024
Our talented LCGD graduates stole the show at the recent Hampton Court Royal Garden Palace Festival with their stunning “All About Asteraceae” borders.

The LCGD partners with the RHS to celebrate the Asteraceae plant family

18 Jun, 2024
The London College of Garden Design has teamed up with the Royal Horticultural Society to create a new planting feature, “All About Asteraceae: the plant family with flower power” for this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. Planted by recent graduates of the college, seven borders along Ditton Avenue will welcome visitors to the Festival and will showcase the wide variety and diversity of plants in the genus Asteraceae.

How can designers contribute to a sustainable future?

30 May, 2024
At LCGD we take the challenges we face to biodiversity and a changing climate seriously and ensure that the very wide subject of sustainable design is discussed on ALL our courses.

London College of Garden Design graduates win Best in Show awards

23 May, 2024
At the opening of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show London College of Garden Design (LCGD) Graduates have won two of the Best in Category Awards.

The new Autumn season at Kew

15 May, 2024
We have launched a special new season of short courses at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew celebrating plants, gardens and the business of design this Autumn.

LCGD Graduates lead the field

5 Feb, 2024
LCGD Graduates once again led the garden design profession at this year’s SGD Awards winning 5 of the awards including 2 out of 3 student awards.

LCGD graduate wins Bali Chalk Fund Award

20 Dec, 2023
At the annual BALI Awards last Friday where the best of the UK landscape professions are celebrated, London College of Garden Design Graduate Craig Atkinson was awarded the 2023 BALI Chalk Fund National Garden Design Student of the Year.

Prolandscaper Awards Graduate Success

19 Dec, 2023
Our graduates and students were enjoying Futurescape last month.

Graduate competition announces winner

13 Dec, 2023
Congratulations to Chloe Hamblen, our recent Graduate who has won our latest Graduate competition for a public park in South East London.

What our students say

13 Dec, 2023
Find out why our students study with us.

Chelsea Garden for Burma Skincare Initiative

9 Nov, 2023
We’re delighted to report that Planting Design Diploma Graduate Helen Olney has won our competition to design a garden for the Burma Skincare Initiative at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2024.

Building the future

1 Aug, 2023
We continue to build a strong future for LCGD with our professional colleagues from the landscape industry and so we are delighted to welcome Nina Baxter as a Director of the College and as the new course leader for our professional Planting Design Diploma.

Sustainable approaches to planting design

26 Apr, 2023
At LCGD we now run a series of sustainable design courses including a sustainability stream through our Planting Design Diploma. A key part of what we design into our gardens is the planting and there are many approaches we can take.

Sustainable approaches to sourcing hard landscaping

19 Apr, 2023
There are so many things that we could do when considering the design of hard landscaping in our designs and here are just a few to consider linked to sourcing of materials that LCGD tutors recommend.

Selling sustainability to our clients

11 Apr, 2023
We asked our LCGD tutors and lecturers how they get the buy in for a sustainable design from clients? How can we make sustainable solutions desirable that they accept and that get the acceptance of the neighbours?

Sustainable landscapes – how designers can work

4 Apr, 2023
At LCGD we encourage sustainable design approaches in students’ work. There is now substantial and growing evidence for the physical and mental health benefits of spending time in the natural environment, although people, especially children are engaging less with nature.

A new training partnership

7 Mar, 2023
We’re very pleased to announce an innovative new partnership with the Lawn Association to ensure that garden design professionals have the skills and expertise to promote true sustainable lawn care within their work.

LCGD Charitable donations top £30,000

12 Dec, 2022
Our social responsibility strategy continues to support horticultural charities that benefit a wide community. This includes those working within the industry through our association with Perennial, the Gardeners Royal Benevolent Charity.

LONDON COLLEGE OF GARDEN DESIGN NAMES MOST ICONIC NEW GARDENS

2 Dec, 2022
The London College of Garden Design (LCGD) recently asked an international panel of speakers to choose their iconic garden of the previous decade that will, in their mind, be the gardens we will still be talking about as landmarks in garden design in 20 years-time.

Belvoir Castle Countryside Borders Competition 2023

19 Oct, 2022
We are celebrating our involvement in the fifth year of The Belvoir Castle Flower and Garden Show which runs from 15th-16th July 2023 by asking you to show us your perfect countryside border.

New Zealand’s Best Garden

19 Oct, 2022
Our series on New Iconic Gardens of the 21st Century has been very popular as we expand our search across the UK, USA and Scandinavia. Our next port of call is New Zealand and Ben Hoyle, one of the country’s finest and best known Garden Designers.

New Nordic Gardens

5 Oct, 2022
We are delighted to be welcoming Annika Zetterman, author of the best-selling New Nordic Gardens to our webinar series this season.

Which new iconic garden will you choose?

21 Sep, 2022
Our new series of Info Bursts got off to a great start with a presentation on the Grey to Green landscape created in Sheffield. Alexa Ryan-Mills proposed that this design brining colour and sustainability to a city centre will change how we look at urban greening.

Landscape Show 2022

17 Aug, 2022
We are delighted to be supporting the Landscape Show 2022 in their second year at the NEC in Birmingham with an exciting series of talks across two days.

New Iconic Gardens Revisited

12 Aug, 2022
Over 10 years ago we invited some well-known garden personalities to choose their favourite new garden that had been created in the previous decade or so and pitch it as one of the gardens we will still be talking about as landmarks in garden design in 20 years time.

Belvoir Castle crowns Countryside Borders winner

5 Aug, 2022
The winner of the Countryside Borders competition, sponsored by the London College of Garden Design has been announced as Katy Watson. Katy also won the People’s Vote at the Belvoir Castle Flower & Garden Show with her design for a planted border that can support wild birds in our gardens by helping them forage for themselves and to improve biodiversity in our gardens (pictured).

LCGD Graduate Katherine Holland exhibits her first show garden at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival

7 Jul, 2022
We were delighted to see Katherine Holland at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival win a Silver medal for her garden ‘A Journey, in collaboration with Sue Ryder’ The garden tells a story about the range of thoughts and emotions that we confront when experiencing grief, and is designed to encourage conversation with the aim of supporting those who are grieving and the people close to them.

Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) Awards

31 Mar, 2022
The Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) celebrated their annual awards in March and we were delighted to see that LCGD Graduates were successful in winning a number of awards.

Info Burst Catch Up

15 Feb, 2022
If you have missed an Info Burst you can sign up to receive a copy of a recording here!

Belvoir Castle Countryside Borders Competition 2023

1 Dec, 2021
We are celebrating our involvement in the fifth year of The Belvoir Castle Flower and Garden Show which runs from 15th-16th July 2023 by asking you to show us your perfect countryside border.

Belvoir Castle Flower and Garden Show 2022

26 Nov, 2021
We are once again supporting the Belvoir Castle Flower and Garden Show in 2022 with increased support of the Countryside Borders competition that celebrates planting design and supports new garden designers and horticulturists as they start their careers.

So You Want to be a Garden Designer

26 Nov, 2021
LCGD have relaunched their successful careers day So You Want to be a Garden Designer to support people thinking of moving to a career in the profession.

LCGD Graduates win SGD Awards

5 Nov, 2021
At the recent 9th annual awards show for the Society of Garden Designers (SGD) Awards 2021, Students, Graduates, and Directors from the London College of Garden Design (LCGD) walked away with not just the Student Awards but other garden awards as well.

Chelsea Flower Show 2021 Awards

5 Nov, 2021
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show saw many LCGD Graduates exhibit gardens and balconies to the public for the first Autumn Show to be run.

LCGD Launches New Courses To Support GREENFINGERS

17 Sep, 2021
For the Autumn of 2021 LCGD’S new season of info bursts will speak to 4 young Garden Designers who are making a mark through their planting designs. Tom Simpson kicks off the series on Tuesday 28th September.

New courses launched

23 Jul, 2021
We are constantly updating our short courses. For more information, click on  the link below.

London College of Garden Design celebrates Graduation with donations to the NHS Forest

8 Jul, 2021
Wednesday, 07 July 2021, the London College of Garden Design (LCGD) celebrated their 2020 and 2021 graduations by donating 100 trees to the NHS Forest.

Belvoir Flower & Garden Festival 2021

31 Dec, 2020
The London College of Garden Design has announced that they have renewed their sponsorship of the Countryside Borders Competition at the Belvoir Castle Flower and Garden Show 2021.

New horticultural training provider gardencourses.com to shake up gardening education in 2021

16 Oct, 2020
Offering online learning to home gardeners, gardencourses.com, a collaboration between the founders of the internationally acclaimed London College of Garden Design and ground-breaking environmental podcast Roots and All, is launching on 1st December.

What’s on


Cultivating talent

The September issue of Pro Landscaper celebrates 15 years of the LCGD journey and success.

What our students say

Find out why our students study with us.

New courses launched

Various Dates
We are constantly updating our short courses. For more information, click on  the link below.