Most people make the mistake of focusing on plants and not enough on design – creating a great garden is all about shape and how different elements work together.
The Great Garden Formula is an online garden design course. It enables those of us that aren’t naturally gifted artists or good at visualising to be able to design easily.
The course is totally online so you don’t even need to leave your house to do it. It’s a mix of written materials in downloadable PDFs and video tutorials to guide you through everything you need to know in order to create a beautifully designed garden.
I’m Rachel Mathews from the international ORIGIN garden design and construction company. I’ve been designing gardens for nearly 20 years. In that time, I’ve transformed every conceivable shape, style and size of garden from rolling acres to the tiniest of courtyards.
I’ve reached a point in my career where I want to do more than just design. I want to teach people how to design their own gardens. I’ve put everything I’ve learned over the last 19 years as a professional garden designer into the Great Garden Formula design course. I want to share all the really important practical tips the garden design books leave out.

Based on my own learning and struggles I’ve developed this course to enable even a complete beginner to design their garden successfully. So, if you’re looking to transform your garden, the Great Garden Formula will guide you through the process step-by-step. You’ll be able to…
Creating a great garden isn’t achieved by throwing money at it and hoping. If it was, everyone’s garden would be great. Plants alone won’t do it, no matter how pretty they are. See the example below:
The shape and way the materials work with one another is what has really made the big difference to the garden in the second picture; the plants are only the icing on the cake. If we’d just changed the plants and not adjusted the shape of the lawn and patio, the garden wouldn’t look much better than in the first picture.
In this first module we look at the foundation of creating a beautiful garden. The 7 most important design principles (one of which creates 60% of the results) – understanding these is the vital first step to your dream garden. You will learn how each principle works and how to use them in conjunction with one another, which is critical to successfully transforming any garden.
MODULE 1 – 7 Key Principles of Garden Design

Once you know what the principles of garden design are, it’s now time to discover some niffty tricks professional designers use. Here’s where you’ll learn some simple but highly effective ‘Ninja’ tricks that help make professional designers look so talented!

In this module you’ll learn how everything in the previous two modules applies to different size and shape gardens. Long narrow gardens, wide gardens, L-shaped, awkward shapes, large gardens, small gardens all have different requirements. By the end of this module, no matter what size or shape of garden you have, you’ll know how to use its shape to your advantage.

Here’s where you discover the formula that took me years to develop, which creates really successful results time and time again. It brings together all of the principles and design tricks in a way that will speed up your garden planning process and get you the results you want quickly and easily.
BONUS MODULE 5 – How To Unleash Your Creativity (Even If You Don’t Think You Have Any!)Even if you don’t think you are a creative person, this guide will help you use your full potential. It can be easy to get creatively stuck when you first start. Over the years I’ve been stuck a lot (before I worked out the Great Garden Formula) and I have developed some very effective techniques that are guaranteed to free your creativity if you find yourself getting stuck.

If, like me, you’re not a natural artist or have trouble visualising, The Cheat’s Guide To Sketching and Visualising will be a life saver! I’ll show you all the cheeky tricks I use to produce perspective sketches which help with visualising the way the finished garden will look. You’ll also learn some tricks that don’t even require you to sketch! Sketches are very valuable when presenting your ideas to other people and the landscaper (shockingly, not all landscapers are good at reading plans!).

After the design process, the next step is choosing the right plants. The good news is you don’t need as much knowledge as you think to be able to choose the right plants for your garden. By knowing a few basic things to look out for, you’ll know exactly which plants to grow where. Everyone will be impressed by your ‘Plant Whispering’ skills by the time you’ve read this. The knowledge contained is worth the price of the course alone with all the money you’ll save on not killing plants because they’ve been planted in the wrong place!
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There is the convenience of studying at home any time that suits you. Traditional college courses often start at $1,000 and don’t cover a lot of the practical, real world design methods that I teach in the Great Garden Formula Course.
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I don’t buy any courses I do online unless they come with a guarantee, so I don’t expect you to either. If for ANY reason you are not completely satisfied, I will completely refund you in full for the course. And you can keep the bonus downloads that come with the course which are worth the price of the course alone.
This one time investment will give you the skill and confidence to make your garden beautiful. It makes a big difference knowing something will work rather than hoping. And because the course covers how to tackle gardens of all shapes and sizes, you’ll be able to design all your future gardens when you move house.
If you want to know exactly how to create a great garden, using all the tricks the professionals do, the answer is yes. But, if you are just looking for a ready made garden plan, then this is not for you. Whilst the course contains plenty of plans and photographs that you can use to get ideas from, the course is designed to teach you everything I know about design so that you can design for yourself.
Please note the course’s main focus is on design not plants. There is a bonus guide on choosing the right plants. The course comes in an easy to download format.

Master the Basics of Creating a Beautiful Garden -
The Great Garden Formula Design Course is an ideal course for anyone that wants to know the essentials of garden design. If you just want to know how to create a beautiful garden and learn how to do an elegant garden design or a garden makeover, the Great Garden Formula course is ideal for you.
It doesn’t matter if you are an experienced gardener or not. Gardening is a totally different skill than garden design. Knowing how to shape your garden and what plants to put in is a very different art to actual gardening (knowing how and when to prune plants for example). Without a good foundation knowledge of garden design, all the gardening skills in the world won’t guarantee you get good results – an attractive garden.
But what if you are not a creative person?
We all are to a greater or lesser degree but that aside, garden design is as much practical as it is artistic. I will show you different methods of designing to suit your creative levels, as well as showing you how to become more creative.
What happens if you still can’t do it?
If you find yourself getting stuck, then the section on design tips and tricks will help. I’ve been stuck on designs and over the years I’ve come up with some cunning solutions, that are guaranteed to get you where you need to be.
Can’t visualize things well?
Again, this isn’t a problem. Visualization isn’t as necessary as you may think. I will show you ways to get around that and even turn it to your advantage.
If you just want a nice garden but not something ‘too designery’ don’t worry, I’ll teach you how to do it to a level that suits your needs and tastes.
Worried that you’ll have to re-do your entire garden?
No, that often isn’t necessary. There are usually ways to incorporate what’s in your garden now. So, if you just want to learn how to do a makeover on your existing garden, without ripping everything up and starting again – that’s covered in the course.
One of the nice things about an online course is you can watch the tutorials and read the lesson content as often as you want. It’s not like being in a classroom which goes at a pace the tutor sets. You set your own pace.
If you think about how much it costs to get a professional designer involved and also factor in if you move house 2 or 3 times and have a designer every time – that could easily be over $3000 in design fees. If you know how to do your own garden, every time you move, you’ll save money. That’s a pretty good investment, not to mention the pleasure and satisfaction, doing the garden yourself brings.
There is no waiting to enrol, you have instant access to download the course in full, right from the get go.
There is no risk to you because of the money back guarantee. If this course isn’t for you for whatever reason you can have your money back. Simple. So try it today, now. Click on the big happy orange button below and you’ll get instant access to download the course material.
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Oh and one last thing – the amount you will save yourself on not buying the wrong things for your garden will easily pay for this course over and over again.