Garden Design Collective | Theme Garden Process

THEME GARDEN PROCESS

Themes focus + unify your design

This month we'll explore the theme garden process to help focus and unify your designs. This is a great way to pull your thoughts together before jumping into the details of a design.

Designing a garden is similar to writing a paper: you think of a theme first, then create the content to support that topic. If you chose to write a paper on Gertrude Jekyll, then strangely included a paragraph on the history of baseball the reader would be utterly confused. Choose your content to support your theme...then it all comes together.

Let's jump in!

GOODNESS FOR YOU THIS MONTH

Below you will find several items to help you learn more about the THEME GARDEN DESIGN PROCESS. From written words to video to applied activities to group discussions. Explore our topic from different angles and gain a new perspective. Click on the images below to download PDFs of your Garden Guide, Activity and a copy of my ebook, The Peanut Butter + Jelly Garden. Further down you will find a video and links to our community, a bonus live workshop, plus a Q+A too!

Additional Resources

If you'd like to dive into theme garden development even more you're welcome to check out the posts I've written below:

My Theme Garden Process (+ a Knitting Garden!)

Creating a Heavy Metal Theme Garden

VIDEO: THEME GARDEN PROCESS

OUR COMMUNITY

Don't forget to hang out with us this month.

Check in to share your activity!

Activity .01 // FIND THEME GARDEN PHOTO

Click below to share a garden design you've found (photo or drawing) that shows a GARDEN THEME.

Share as a CHALLENGE

Activity .02 // THEME GARDEN MOOD BOARD

Share your theme garden mood board, plus what you learned from the process.

Share as a CHALLENGE

MONTHLY Q+A and THEME GARDEN WORKSHOP

Take note that we will have TWO live sessions this month! I've included a live Theme Garden Workshop earlier in the month, plus our normal Q+A at the end of the month.

THEME GARDEN WORKSHOP: I thought it would be fun to work through the theme garden process together so we can answer questions as they arise and be creative together. I look forward to trying a new format!

These will both be recorded in case you can't make them (then posted right back here). Visit the Q+A SCHEDULE for times and links or click below. I'll send a reminder email out before each session.

I can't wait to see you!

Theme Garden Workshop

Thursday, January 12

North America: 8 AM PST | 9 AM MST | 10 AM CST | 11 AM EST

London: 4 PM GMT

Sydney: January 13 at 3 AM AEDT

Thanks for a fun workshop! We created a roller coaster garden in MIRO. You can take a peek here. You won't be able to edit anymore, but you can see all of our work. It's pretty cool.

For those unable to make it, please check out the recording and chat notes below.

CHAT NOTES

Here's the ZOOM Recording!