We have a new series of workshops this year designed for professionals in the industry. Current topics include arboriculture, fundamentals of ecological horticulture, reforestation, and seed collecting. Learn more and register on our website: https://lnkd.in/ea6HAT6n
Mt. Cuba Center
Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
Hockessin, DE 2,068 followers
Gardening on a higher level
About us
Mt. Cuba Center is a botanical garden that inspires an appreciation for the beauty and value of native plants and a commitment to protect the habitats that sustain them. Over the past 70 years the gardens at Mt. Cuba Center have been transformed from fallow cornfields into thriving ecologically functional landscapes, thanks to the initiative of Mr. and Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland. With paths that take visitors from the formal gardens of a du Pont mansion through stunning vistas, intimate woodlands, and lush meadows, Mt. Cuba Center is a botanical garden that puts the beauty of native landscapes on display to inspire conservation. What began in the 1930s as the private estate of Mr. and Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland is now a public garden that centers the beauty and value of native plants. In addition to cultivating the public garden's formal and naturalistic landscapes, Mt. Cuba Center staff conduct research, connect guests to the natural world and teach students about native plant horticulture. Gardens are open for general admission Wednesday to Sunday, April to November. Classes are offered year-round.
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External link for Mt. Cuba Center
- Industry
- Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Hockessin, DE
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1989
- Specialties
- Native Plants, Conservation, Education, Special Events, Ecological Gardening, Family Events, Consultation, Membership, Research, and Botany
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3120 Barley Mill Road
Hockessin, DE 19707, US
Employees at Mt. Cuba Center
Updates
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We're #hiring a new Arboriculture Intern in Hockessin, Delaware. Apply today or share this post with your network.
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We're #hiring a new Volunteer & Employee Engagement Administrator in Hockessin, Delaware. Apply today or share this post with your network.
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We're #hiring a new Arboriculture Intern in Hockessin, Delaware. Apply today or share this post with your network.
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Love native plants and always wanted to work in a botanic garden? Mt. Cuba is looking for a plant records manager to enhance documentation of our incredible living collection. Check our website for more info and to apply: https://bit.ly/4dp8s4P
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Northern Gardener’s summer issue has a great article on sedges, including suggestions from Mt. Cuba's Manager of Horticultural Research, Sam, based on our recent Carex for the Mid-Atlantic Region trial garden report. Check it out here! https://bit.ly/4aV1UJN
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Mt. Cuba’s South Garden is a now fully accessible space originally designed by the pioneering female landscape architect, Marian Coffin. The South Garden demonstrates that native plants and cultivars can be used in more traditional and formal spaces that are both highly ornamental and neat and tidy. From an assortment of containers on the terrace to the garden beds themselves, this area is both beautiful and beneficial for wildlife! Read more about using native plants in tidy gardens with some pictures of Mt. Cuba’s South Garden for inspiration here: https://bit.ly/3Rf1nLw And check out this video from Home and Backyard for more about the plants currently in the space in an interview with our senior horticulturist, Michael: https://bit.ly/3Kv1dfy
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ICYMI Mt. Cuba was featured on ‘6abc Action News’ last night! See our spring blooms from the ground and air, learn about our philosophy for creating native plant landscapes, and hear from our talented horticulture staff and volunteers. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/escDQgVz
A wooded wonderland awaits at the Mt. Cuba Center in the hills of Hockessin, Delaware
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