She has been teaching for 17 years and won many teaching awards, including being inducted into NC State University’s Academy of Outstanding Teachers, and Teacher of the Year when she taught in the School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. Her typical courses include Introduction to Landscape Design; Sustainable Residential Landscape Design; Planting Design; Introduction to Permaculture: Sustainable Living, Green Infrastructure, and a Home Landscape Design course for non-majors and homeowners. In the past, she has also taught Plant Material Identification and Use; Site Design (grading and drainage); Landscape Construction; and a course on International Travel, where she took students to see parks and gardens of Berlin and Paris.