Disclaimer. By Rachel Mathews Successful Garden Design. Editor: Anna Obarzanowska

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2 SURVEY YOUR GARDEN COURSE By Rachel Mathews Successful Garden Design Editor: Anna Obarzanowska Disclaimer Copyright 2012 Rachel Mathews Successful Design Ltd. All rights reserved. Disclaimer: Please note, the information contained within this document is for educational purposes only. Every attempt has been made to provide accurate, up-to-date, reliable, and complete information. No warranties of any kind are expressed or implied. Readers acknowledge that the author is not engaging in rendering professional advice. By reading this document, the reader agrees that under no circumstances is the author responsible for any losses, direct or indirect, that are incurred as a result of use of the information contained within this document, accompanying videos, or other supplementary materials. This includes but is not limited to errors, omissions, or inaccuracies. The material contained in this document is not meant to be a substitute for formal training nor a replacement for professional training. License Notes: This content is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This course may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. Copyright: Rachel Mathews Successful Design Ltd

3 TABLE OF CONTENTS HOW TO SURVEY YOUR GARDEN MINI-COURSE Introduction Page 5 Why You Need to Accurately Survey Your Garden 6 What Equipment Do You Need? 7 Part 1 How to do a Basic Survey 8 Solutions for Measuring Established Gardens 12 How to Survey More Complex Gardens 14 Aspect 15 Photographs 16 How to Survey Level Changes 17 How to Survey More Complex Level Changes 19 Severe Slopes 20 Tape Measure Tips 21 Part 1 Quick Reference Re-cap 22 3

4 TABLE OF CONTENTS HOW TO SURVEY YOUR GARDEN Part 2 How to Draw a Scale Plan 23 How to Choose the Right Scale for Your Garden 24 How to Draw up Your Survey Plan 25 Part 2 Quick Reference Re-cap 28 The Design Phase 29 About the Author 30 4

5 HOW TO MEASURE YOUR GARDEN INTRODUCTION Having an accurate survey plan of your garden is critical if you want to play your garden properly. The majority of people don t plan their gardens. Which tends to mean the majority of people don t get the garden they really want. The thing is, with a bit of thought put in at the beginning, it s not anywhere near as hard as you may think to create a beautiful garden. their garden and draw a scale plan. Fatal mistake. So the fact you are reading this and are going to get things right from the start, makes you a near genius (in the garden planning world). Seriously, well done for being considerably smarter than the vast majority of the population! The few individuals that do think about and plan their garden often make a huge error right at the start. They don t measure 5

6 WHY YOU NEED TO ACCURATELY SURVEY YOUR GARDEN An accurate garden designing is vital to successful designing. Without it, you won t be able to create a design that will work properly when you come to build it. A good design inter-links. If you ve guessed what size and shape your garden is, then the chances of your design actually fitting when you build it are slim to none. This is because if you have to change one part to fit, it has a knock-on effect on the rest of the garden, so all the time you spent planning will have been in vain without an accurate scale plan. If you ve hired contractors to build your garden or even if you are doing it yourself, without an accurate plan, you will waste a lot of time and potentially money. There is no point in spending hours on a design if it doesn t fit when you come to build it or you end up ordering the wrong quantity of materials! OK. Now you know how important this is, let s get you started. 6

7 WHAT EQUIPMENT DO YOU NEED? You will need the following items: Long tape measure 30m (100ft) Short tape measure 5m (15ft) A4 (or letter size) notepad & pen Compass Scale rule (we will cover which scale later) Set square 7