This site is designed to provide training in a number of areas important to landscapers and garden designers including the photography of plants in a landscape setting, image manipulation, collecting plant information and database development. The particular aim is to show how to prepare material prior to incorporating it into a database (online catalogue) of plant information. Databases are of great value to landscapers. No one can remember details about of hundreds of plants, let alone quickly recall a plant which fills a particular need. A database can do just that, but it only as good as the information you put in to it. Accordingly, the emphasis here is on preparing good quality data (photographs and text) about individual plants. We expect that you will come to see that the online database [http://www.gardencad.net/plants] into which you feed your plant data is an important aid for your design work. Within the database, you can make quite complex searches such as show me a list of 'shade loving, winter flowering plants with silver foliage'.
The courses here include:
The three courses should be taken in order; the first course helps improve your photographic skills, in the next course you learn the value of editing your images, finally, you collect information about a series of individual plant species and save in a series of WordPad files. Finally you upload that plant information data for us to check. As mentioned, the ultimate destination of the data (the descriptions, key words and images) is a searchable online database which features a clever search facility and a lightbox facility to book out selected images for downloading. You can examine the catalogue by clicking on the link entitled "Online Plant Catalogue" at left. [http://www.gardencad.net/plants] Available Courses
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Our database contains images of plants used in a landscape setting. Here clients can appreciate the use of Wisteria, liriopes and dwarf Mondo grass in a landscape settings.
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