Editing Landscape design (section)

==Training==
[[File:Andre-Le-Nostre1.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[André Le Nôtre]]]]
Historically, landscape designers trained by apprenticing—such as [[André Le Nôtre]], who apprenticed with his father before designing the [[Gardens of Versailles]]—to accomplished masters in the field, with the titular name varying and reputation paramount for a career. The professional section of garden designers in Europe and the Americas went by the name "Landscape Gardener". In the 1890s, the distinct classification of [[landscape architect]] was created, with educational and licensing test requirements for using the title legally. [[Beatrix Farrand]], the sole woman in the founding group, refused the title preferring Landscape Gardener. Matching the client and technical needs of a project, and the appropriate practitioner with talent, legal qualifications, and experienced skills, surmounts title nomenclature.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

Institutional education in landscape design appeared in the early 20th century. Over time it became available at various levels. Ornamental horticulture programs with design components are offered at community college and universities within [[Agricultural education|schools of agriculture]] or horticulture, with some beginning to offer garden or landscape design certificates and degrees. Departments of landscape architecture are located within university schools of architecture or [[environmental design]], with undergraduate and graduate degrees offered. Specialties and minors are available in horticultural botany, [[horticulture]], [[Natural resource management|natural resources]], [[landscape engineering]], [[construction management]],  [[Fine art|fine]] and [[applied art]]s, and [[:Category:Landscape design history|landscape design history]]. Traditionally, hand-drawn drawings documented the design and position of features for construction, but [[Landscape design software]] is frequently used now.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

Other routes of training are through informal apprenticeships with practicing landscape designers, landscape architects, landscape contractors, gardeners, nurseries and garden centers, and docent programs at botanical and public gardens.  Since the landscape designer title does not have a college degree or licensing requirements to be used, there is a very wide range of sophistication, aesthetic talent, technical expertise, and specialty strengths to be responsibly matched with specific client and project requirements.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}