Adult Education Classes

Certificate Programs — Student Design Challenge

The Designers' Challenge program offers a unique opportunity for certificate students to apply their experience to your home landscape. Be the first in your neighborhood to have a landscape by Chicago Botanic Garden-trained designers.

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Homeowners:
Want to apply for this unique opportunity?
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Contact Amelia Simmons-Hurt, manager of certificate programs at the Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden, if you are interested in working with certificate program graduates to landscape your home or garden.

Chicago Botanic Garden
c/o Amelia Simmons Hurt
1000 Lake Cook Road
Glencoe, IL 60022

E-mail: certificateprogram@chicagobotanic.org

The Chicago Botanic Garden is a place of incomparable beauty with a school that provides an exceptional education in horticulture and garden design. Garden Design Certificate students complete a rigorous educational program of 26 courses requiring more than 600 class hours that prepares them to bring an "Oh, WOW!" experience to landscapes all over the Chicago area.

Taught by horticulture and design experts, students study botany, plant health, garden history, garden techniques, soil, hardscape, and design, as well as learn approximately 400 plant species suitable for Chicago-area gardens.

There are only a very few limited opportunities to be a part of this program each year. If you are interested, apply now so we can bring the Chicago Botanic Garden “Oh, WOW!” experience to your home landscape.

Click here to read about how program works.