Judith Phillips DESIGN OASIS

Judith Phillips is a landscape designer and writer with 30 years experience gardening with native and arid-adapted plants in the high desert.

Judith: "Using local ecosystems as a frame of reference, I design landscapes in harmony with nature. Philosophically, my designs value belonging above ownership, participating in natural process rather than trying to control untenable ones. The results are spaces that are easier to manage and a pleasure to live in. These are not necessarily wild-looking landscapes. Depending upon the size of the space and its setting, an eco-inspired garden may be decidedly restrained, exuberantly dramatic or a bit of both a transition from one mood to another."

Ecological landscape design is the process of assessing the existing conditions on site, the particular needs and preferences of the people using the space and the potential of the place itself.

Judith: " My goad is to create beautiful, sustainable living spaces from the ground up, employing the contours of swales and basins to capture rainwater Where trees can thrive, and pairing architectural features such as walls, shade structures, paths and patios with plant vignettes that benefit from the resulting microclimates."

Books by Judith Phillips include:
New Mexico Gardener's Guide. Thomas Nelson Publisher, Cool Springs Press, Franklin, TX (First edition 1998), 2005

Southwestern Landscaping with Native Plants, Revised Edition, Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, NM, 1995.

Judith also writes the In the Garden column for Su Casa Magazine