Online Class: Landscaping 101
Learn the basics of landscaping including harmony, balance, color, natural transitions, proportion and line.

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Course Description
Landscaping is a multibillion dollar industry for both sales and service and for good reason. The popularity is driven by the enjoyment people get from designing and implementing landscaping that is visually appealing by using both natural plants and synthetic materials.
This course will provide you with a number of tips and techniques to develop your ideal landscape. This course will help you identify and assess your landscaping needs, understand design principles, and implement your creative idea in your own unique setting. This course will teach you design principles, material application, cost estimation, visual analysis, planting design, hardscape applications, irrigation, water features, design for outdoor living, and business concepts for landscaping professionals. Whether you are working at your own home or a commercial location, this course will show you all the steps to develop a great landscape project--from cost estimating to the final installation and along the way we will show you a number of environmentally sound practices.
The enjoyment of a beautiful landscape is one of the great pleasures of home ownership. However, actually realizing your landscaping visions can be stressful. You may have just bare dirt or a poor grass yard and like so many other people, you just don't know where to start. This online course can help. Landscaping 101 will not only teach you the basics of the science of landscaping, it will show you how to apply your own creativity to transform your yard into a work of art.
In this course you will:
- Learn the basics of landscaping including harmony, balance, color, natural transitions, proportion and line.
- Learn how to assess your present landscape needs.
- Learn how to assess the purpose of your landscape.
- Learn how to gather ideas and whether to use professional help or not.
- Learn how to plan your landscape, and schedule the work.
- Learn how to avoid common landscaping mistakes.
- Learn how to make the most of what you have.
This starter course is ideal for anyone. Whether you just want to improve one corner of the yard, or you want to add some flowerbeds, a tree, or shrub here and there -- or you're starting from scratch with a bare lot and need to learn how to start, plan, and finish an entire landscape, this course will help you achieve your landscaping goals.
- Completely Online
- Self-Paced
- Printable Lessons
- Full HD Video
- 6 Months to Complete
- 24/7 Availability
- Start Anytime
- PC & Mac Compatible
- Android & iOS Friendly
- Accredited CEUs

Course Lessons
Lesson 1: Assessing Your Landscaping Needs and Design Principles
When you think about it, landscaping can be quite complex depending on your desires to build the “wow” factor or very simple depending on your personality style.
Additional lesson topics: Step-by-Step Landscaping 2nd Edition Better Homes and Gardens Gardening ; Landscaping Ideas that Work Taunton's Ideas That Work
14 Total Points
Lesson 1 Video
Lesson discussions: Reasons for Taking this Course
Complete: Lesson 1 Assignment
Complete: Introduction Assignment
Assessment: Exam 1
Lesson 2: Landscape Design and Implementation
In this lesson, we discuss landscaping design and transform your design into the actual implementation.
Additional lesson topics: Landscaping Design; More Landscape Design Ideas; Design, Construction, and Planting
13 Total Points
Lesson 2 Video
Complete: Lesson 2 Assignment
Assessment: Exam 2
Lesson 3: Material and Enclosure Selection, Application, and Configuration
Material and enclosure selection is an area where you can really allow your own personal style and personality to show through your landscape design.
10 Total Points
Lesson 3 Video
Assessment: Exam 3
Lesson 4: Cost Estimating and Budgeting
Take a look at some of the common costs for your local area and determine what your time frame is to accomplish is your goal.
Additional lesson topics: Landscape Maintenance Checklist; Safety Checklists for New Landscape Employees; Landscape Design, Cost Estimate, and Management Plan; Landscaping Cost; How Much Does Landscaping Cost?; Budgeting for a Landscaping Project
10 Total Points
Lesson 4 Video
Assessment: Exam 4
Lesson 5: Visual Analysis and Curb Appeal
The visual analysis can be performed at any time to determine needs and develop a checklist of things to improve on. Curb appeal takes more time and is the collective result of your continual refinement.
Additional lesson topics: Outdoor ideas; Several Before-and-After Curb Appeal Makeovers; Lush Landscaping Creates Major Curb Appeal; Several Easy Curb Appeal Ideas Anyone Can Do
12 Total Points
Lesson 5 Video
Complete: Lesson 5 Assignment
Assessment: Exam 5
Lesson 6: Landscaping Tools, Materials, and Equipment Use and Application
The great thing about landscaping is that the cost is scalable. You can begin with few tools and little money for the budget or can purchase all of the tools you need and use a large budget.
Additional lesson topics: How; Safety Equipment for Landscapers; Protect your Business: Developing a Landscaping/Lawn Maintenance Safety Program
10 Total Points
Lesson 6 Video
Assessment: Exam 6
Lesson 7: Outdoor Rooms, Porches, and Hideaways
In the current marketplace, landscapers and consumers have the best opportunity they have ever had to build stellar outdoor rooms, entertainment areas, and hideaways.
Additional lesson topics: Patio Enclosures Ideas; Several Garden Dens for the Perfect Outdoor Hideaway; Several Charming Porches of Landscaping Ideas
12 Total Points
Lesson 7 Video
Complete: Lesson 7 Assignment
Assessment: Exam 7
Lesson 8: Planting Design, plus Seasonal and Climate Application (Softscapes)
The live plantings you choose will provide you with the greatest opportunity to infuse color and the soft feel of flowers, bushes, and other vegetation to your landscaping.
Additional lesson topics: Softscape Ideas
10 Total Points
Lesson 8 Video
Assessment: Exam 8
Lesson 9: Patios, Decking, Fencing, Block, and Walls (Hardscapes)
In this lesson, we will discuss patios, decking, fencing, and different types of block and retention walls. With today’s design techniques you can easily build patios, decking, or walls in a wide array of straight and also curved applications.
Additional lesson topics: 20 Wow-Worthy Hardscaping Ideas; How to Create a Successful Hardscape
10 Total Points
Lesson 9 Video
Assessment: Exam 9
Lesson 10: Irrigation (System, Components, and Design Process)
As a landscaper and home or business owner there are a number of maintenance factors that you will want to automate, such as watering.
Additional lesson topics: Irrigation Design – Landscape Sprinkler System Design Tutorial; How to design a lawn sprinkler system
10 Total Points
Lesson 10 Video
Assessment: Exam 10
Lesson 11: Design for Outdoor Living and Exterior Lighting
In this lesson, we discuss more about designing your exterior to make outdoor living easier from an electrical, technology, and exterior lighting perspective, as well as some of the creature comfort aspects to modernize your landscape masterpiece.
Additional lesson topics: Types of Garden Designs; Several Landscape Lighting Ideas; Landscape Lighting Design Tips; Outdoor Lighting Tips
10 Total Points
Lesson 11 Video
Assessment: Exam 11
Lesson 12: Streetscape and Walkway Planning Process
How your landscaping looks from the street 100% controls your curb appeal and how you structure your walkways impacts how you use your land and areas.
Additional lesson topics: Adopt Accessible and Attractive Streetscape Design Guidelines; Several Ideas for Creating the Perfect Path; Several Design Ideas for Beautiful Garden Paths; Tips for Creating an Inviting Walkway
12 Total Points
Lesson 12 Video
Complete: Lesson 12 Assignment
Assessment: Exam 12
Lesson 13: Water Features, Fountains, Ponds, Statues, and Container Gardens
This lesson covers water features, fountains, garden ponds, and other interesting concepts that provide the tranquility and relaxation of water within your landscape.
Additional lesson topics: Grand Pond Design; Outdoor Fountain Ideas; Container Pots and Planters
10 Total Points
Lesson 13 Video
Assessment: Exam 13
Lesson 14: Landscape Maintenance
Landscape maintenance allows you to keep your landscaping project looking as great as it did from the initial date of completion until the day you decide to make modifications.
Additional lesson topics: How to Maintain Your Home's Landscape; How to Maintain Landscape Beds; How to maintain your landscape
12 Total Points
Lesson 14 Video
Complete: Lesson 14 Assignment
Assessment: Exam 14
Lesson 15: Essential Business Concepts for Landscaping Professionals: Contracts, Specifications, Customer Service, and Safety and OSHA Compliance
Landscaping customer service involves slightly different needs and areas of attention than typical customer service because a great deal of your work is based on the customer’s visual expectations.
76 Total Points
Lesson 15 Video
Lesson discussions: End of Course Poll; Course Comments; Program Evaluation Follow-up Survey (End of Course)
Assessment: Exam 15
Assessment: Final Exam
231
Total Course Points
Learning Outcomes
By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the importance of dirt.
- Summarize your landscaping needs and design principles.
- Assess your landscaping needs.
- Summarize material and enclosure selection, application, and configuration.
- Define cost estimating and budgeting for your landscaping project.
- Create a 3 year plan.
- Summarize visual analysis and curb appeal.
- Define planning specifics.
- Recognize landscaping tools, materials, and equipment use and application.
- Define outdoor rooms, porches and hideaways.
- Estimate the costs.
- Create design styles for outdoor living.
- Describe patios, decking, fencing, block and walls (hardscapes).
- Describe outdoor rooms.
- Summarize irrigation (system and components and design process).
- Describe ways to select the right plants, trees, and shrubs.
- Determine design for outdoor living and exterior lighting.
- Summarize water features, fountains, ponds, statues and container gardens.
- Recognize landscape maintenance.
- Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
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Course Title:
Landscaping 101
Course Number:
9770436
Lessons Rating:
4.4 / 5 Stars
(2,108 votes)
Languages:
English - United States, Canada and other English speaking countries
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Availability:
This course is online and available in all 50 states including: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Texas.
Last Updated:
January 2023
Course Type:
Self-Paced, Online Class
CEU Value:
0.9 IACET CEUs (Continuing Education Units)
CE Accreditation:
Universal Class, Inc. has been accredited as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).
Grading Policy:
Earn a final grade of 70% or higher to receive an online/downloadable CEU Certification documenting CEUs earned.
Assessment Method:
Lesson assignments and review exams
Instructor:
Cathleen Chouinard
Syllabus:
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Course Fee:
$95.00 U.S. dollars
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Student Testimonials
- "It was a great course on landscaping the only things I can think of that it didn't provide like gardening basics are in other courses and I understand why it's appropriate to have them separated into separate courses." -- Leah R.
- "This course was more than I expected. I was think that it was going to be a basic overview and I would have to do more research. I believe that it was all here and I printed some of the lessons for future reference." -- James T.
- "I learned a lot more from this course than I thought I would. I did not realize the background work that was required to take on landscaping, either as a hobby or as a business. Thank you for opening my eyes and gaining appreciation for those who do the work." -- Laura V.
- "This class was very helpful and taught me the very important small details of jobs I have already done so in the future I can execute them better." -- Oscar G.
- "This course is extremely helpful, and now I know what I need to do to become a very good landscaper." -- Wanda K.
- "The course was great, thank you for teaching me more about landscaping." -- Jacob J.
- "It was very helpful and very detailed. Thank you!" -- Robert A.
- "This course is great and very helpful." -- Christopher H.
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