The Landscape Design Study Program is a series of four courses, optional programs, tours and the establishment of Landscape Design Councils. Members who complete the series, passing the examinations with grades of 70 or better, are eligible to receive the Consultants Certification Card, a NGC credential. Each course consists of ten hours of lectures, which may include visits to evaluate sites. “Stewards of the Land” is the required textbook as well as a subscription to The National Gardener magazine.

Course objectives include:
● Develop a greater sense of appreciation, pride, and knowledge about our private and public gardens
● Become better educated to make changes in our surroundings so that they will be more beautiful, useful, convenient, ecologically sound, and easily maintained.
● Stimulate interest in all phases of landscape design, including community planning, which will affect all of our lives.
Develop a large number of qualified Landscape Design Consultants to serve in such decision-making areas of public life as providing leadership, educational programs, scholarships, awards, and promoting better landscape design.