Garden Designer Verses Landscape Architect
Plants and horticultural expertise is the most common dividing line between landscape architects and landscape designers in most people s minds. To legally call yourself a landscape architect you must have a bachelor s and or master s degree in landscape architecture from a university and be licensed by the state in order to design and work on landscape projects traditionally they attend colleges accredited by the american society of landscape architects and have passed the required exams to become licensed. Integrating concepts of design using structure hardscape and plants softscape a term rarely used these days it seems.