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Designing Stunning Spaces with Native Plants: From Species to Space
Take next steps with an exclusive opportunity to work with one of the landscape designers involved in Mt. Cuba’s Master Plan and Glade Entrance Garden. This hands-on workshop dives into the craft of landscape design and how to create unforgettable spaces in collaboration with your favorite plants. Through quick, creative exercises, explore space, composition, seasonality, and feeling to turn ideas into inspired, plant-driven landscapes using the gardens at Mt. Cuba for inspiration. Class is rain or shine. (Limited class size)
Students will need to bring pencils for drawing (HB or 2B) and a ruler of their preference (ex. 12-inch ruler, architecture or engineering scale). Class includes trace paper and pens.
This program takes place in-person at Mt. Cuba Center Saturday, October 11, 2025.
About the Instructor:
Chloe Hawkins (BA, Oberlin College 2003; MLA, University of Virginia 2010) is a visual artist and the Founder and Director of Cohort, a landscape architecture practice committed to deepening the intertwined relationships between people, plants and place. A Lecturer at UVA’s School of Architecture, she teaches graduate courses in technical design skills, plants, and landscape maintenance as a creative design tool. Formerly with NBWLA, Chloe was the lead designer of Mt. Cuba’s Glade Garden and co-led the master plan and first phase of implementation. She’s thrilled to return and engage the gardens as a living classroom.
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