DIY @ GREEN BY NATURE
Our DIY Courses are designed for the person who wishes to design and install their own garden. Towards the bottom of the page you will see booking dates as well as booking forms. The courses cover the following subjects:
1. DIY Garden Design which covers:
· Deciding on your own style of garden
· Looking at Budget and where the money is spent mostly in designs.
· Creating pattern in your garden
· Working with levels in your garden
· Modulation off the house
· Use of Geometry for focal points
· Creating rooms in the garden
· Drawing up a design plan.
2. DIY Companion planting Courses which covers:
· Using texture planting combinations
· Using colour combinations
· Low maintenance plants
· Great planting combinations
· Avoiding costly mistakes with plants
3. DIY Building and Bricklaying Courses which covers:
· Types of walls and Choosing bricks
· Using Concrete blocks and stones
· The Basic structure of a wall
· Using Brick bonds , Making Foundations and wall footings
· Making Mortar - Laying bricks - tools and techniques
· Building a stretcher-bonded wall
· Coping brick walls
· Building intersecting walls
· Brick columns and piers
· Joints
· Cavity walls and screens
· Building with stone
· Building retaining walls
· Building quantities
4. DIY Water feature Construction which covers:
· Types of water features
· Sealing and Finishing
· Pumps piping and filtration
· Using correct plant material
5. DIY Paving courses which covers:
· Paving types
· Driveways Patios pool surrounds
· How to install
· Preparation
· Determining the design
· Edgings
· Pathways and Flagstones
· How to build a step
INVESTMENT PER COURSE: See below
TIMES FOR EACH COURSE - 9am to 13pm Saturdays and for
Weekday courses
(Enquiries and Bookings – Email nadia@greenbynature.co.za or Call NADIA WASSERMAN on
082 465 6375
REFERAL DISCOUNTS:
IF YOU REFER A FRIEND, YOU GET 20% DISCOUNT ON THE COURSE YOU ATTEND. IF
YOU GET 5 FRIENDS OR MORE YOU GET TO ATTEND THE COURSE FOR FREE. PLEASE INDICATE REFERRALS ON YOUR BOOKING FORM OR ASK YOUR FRIENDS TO INDICATE THAT YOU REFERRED THEM.
MULTIPLE COURSE DISCOUNTS:
IF YOU ATTEND THREE OR MORE COURSES YOU GET 20% DISCOUNT PER COURSE. SO IF YOU BOOK ALL 5 COURSES YOU GET THE 5TH COURSE FOR FREE. – YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO BOOK AND PAY FOR ALL 3 TO 5 COURSES IN ADVANCE FOR THIS DISCOUNT TO APPLY.
COURSE DATES AND COURSE FEES
PLEASE NOTE THAT 2010 COURSE DATES WILL BE SET TOWARDS THE END OF 2009.
Course Venue – Green By Nature Offices, Unit G, 21 Riverbend Road, Off Witkoppen Road between
William Nicole and Malibongwe Drive.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD BOOKING FORM