Maria Voris, PLA
Landscape Architect
Welcome our first Arizona-based Landscape Architect, Maria Voris, to the Pland Team!
Maria is not just a cactus enthusiast, she’s a bona fide cactus rescuer who volunteers with the Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society to save cacti and other native plants. Self-proclaimed “plant nerds,” she and her husband have hundreds of cacti in their yard, including 20 saguaros and over 50 barrels, many from rescue. Her Southwestern oasis wouldn’t be complete without Rio, her native desert tortoise. One of Maria’s favorite projects in her portfolio is a traditional Mexican-American home garden, or barrio garden, designed and constructed in collaboration with the Tucson Botanical Garden. Created to showcase a diverse sample of gardens throughout the nation, her project was selected to be installed as a temporary installation at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington DC and won an Arizona ASLA Honor Award. When Maria isn’t designing award-winning gardens and rescuing prickly plant friends, she is busy doing yoga, cycling, and dancing Flamenco.