Improving Your Landscape Design Skills:
Work Through The Design Process Hands-On With Professional Instructors.

Friday July 28, 1 pm-5 pm and Saturday July 29, 8:30 am-4 pm
at the Mountain Horticultural Research & Extension Center, Fletcher, North Carolina

Due to the intensive nature of the workshop attendance is limited to 40 people.  The cost per participant is $100, which includes landscape design materials, lunch on Saturday , and coffee breaks.  On Friday afternoon between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m., participants will have time to meet each other at our arbor.  

The objective of this intensive, dynamic day and half workshop is to improve the understanding and use of the design process by practicing landscape professionals. 

This professional development opportunity is directed toward practicing landscape designers seeking to improve their skills in creating visually engaging and functional landscapes. 

Workshop Contents:

Topics to be covered in the workshop include the sequence of steps one takes when designing a landscape; design principles and approaches, visual elements, graphic communication, customer interactions, design presentation and perspective, plant selection, and site amenities.  The breadth of topics covered will be based on the results of a survey questionnaire sent out in late spring to a sample of practicing professionals by all western North Carolina Cooperative Extension County Agents.  The depth of each topic covered will be based on the individual responses of registered participants.  To assist us in meeting your individual needs in the landscape design process, please fill out the survey questionnaire <highlight as link> and send it in with your registration.   

Workshop pacing will be brisk, moving fluidly between lecture, demonstration, hands-on practice, instructor and peer review, and outdoor landscape discussion.   

All basic landscape design supplies will be provided for the participants.

During hands-on design practice in the interactive group setting, participants and workshop leaders will have the opportunity for engagement to assess the impact of instruction, the degree of understanding, and the implementation of ideas on paper.  Specific feedback from both instructor and designer will guide the hands-on practice over both days.

Advanced undergraduate students in the landscape design curriculum at NC State will accompany the workshop leaders when small-scale breakout sessions focus on individual technique and style.  This is an opportunity for them to practice their professional skills. 

Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center
455 Research Drive
Fletcher, NC 28732
828.684.3562
anthony_lebude@ncsu.edu