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Garden designers use several techniques to aid them in their design process. They are more correctly called ‘techniques’ rather than ‘principles’ of design (although you do often hear this term being used) because they are skills which can be learned and improved with practice.

When you first start designing you will find that some of these skills come to you naturally and some of them are difficult to master, each designer finds some techniques easier than others and every designer has a different skill set.

For each of the techniques in the following pages you have been set an activity which should help you to develop your skill.