Q&A: What is the difference between a Landscape Architect and a Garden Designer?
Question by Betty I: What is the difference between a Landscape Architect and a Garden Designer?
My boyfriend wants to start his own landscaping business like his father did but he doesn’t know which is better… What type of schooling does each require and licenses? Thanks!
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Answer by ?
A landscape architect has 5 years of college in Landscape Architecture and has passed a rigorous several day exam to get a license. Anyone can call themselves a a garden designer. If your boyfriend wants to install plant material, he will probably need a landscape contractors license or horticulture license, both administered by the state and so easy to pass, a second grader could do it.
Landscape Architects can draw and sell plans. No one else can. Landscape Architects are not only designers, but also engineers.
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What’s the difference between a landscape designer and a landscape architect?
Question by John M: What’s the difference between a landscape designer and a landscape architect?
What’s the difference between a landscape designer and a landscape architect? Also, how do you become a landscape architect/landscape designer?
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Answer by Adam W
Well this is one of those questions where the answer has to be a bit vague…
A landscape designer is someone that generally only works with plants and ‘softscaping’ only theoretically designing or including structures such as walls and pathways. A designer can provide you with a quite complex landscape plan.
A landscape architect is more inclined to include very detailed information on the ‘hardscaping’ specifying details about the structure of a wall or paving. An architect will provide a highly detailed landscape plan drawn to scale & including specification etc.
Add to this a landscape engineer who will add construction detail & absolute specifications (e.g. – pier holes to be 300mm wide by 500mm deep with 100mm bed of 20mm clean drainage aggregate in the base etc etc)
Soooo… a landscape designer may well be a landscape architect & vice versa.
It could also be said that all landscape architects are landscape designers but not all designers are architects…
Hope this helps 
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