Usually, landscape designers and architects have utilised pencil and paper to patch the position of floras and other landscape features. Landscape design software package has become a common choice since the coming of the PC (Goodway Landscape).

Practically speaking, landscape architecture and landscape design are all but the same, if made decently according to the science, cognition and skill that should be employed (Goodway Landscape).

Some Landscape Designers are accredited Landscape Architects. Some of the times, professionals must call themselves "Landscape Designers" since local laws and conventions keep advertising as "Landscape Architects" without that level of license. Licensed Landscape Architects must pass a strict 5 section exam to assure a lower limit level of competency within the community and to protect the health, welfare and safety of the end user (Jeff Zima).