Judy’s Gardens & Design

Specialties

A garden has the potential to be your personal oasis… which means different things to each person. Listening to my clients, it is my job and pleasure to find out what that would mean for you. If you are not sure, we’ll find out together through our design consultation, which can either be the beginning of a formal design process, or a stand-​alone meeting and jumping off point.

I am a Bay-​Friendly Certified Landscape Designer using green, sustainable, organic, low water solutions.

Garden styles such as California Contemporary, Edible, Japanese, Asian, Mediterranean, Woodland, California Tropical, whimsical — specializing in creating designs that realize your dreams, working with the design of the house, microclimates, and other elements.

Consultations on interior remodel /​design.

Fine Pruning of small-​medium size landscape trees are another aspect of the business, with a focus on Japanese Maples.

Check my website for articles I’ve written on Design & Aesthetic Pruning

History

Established in 2002.

Judy, has been designing gardens in the Bay Area since 2002, when she opened her business simultaneously upon returning to school to obtain her degree in landscape design and environmental horticulture. An artist & designer in several other realms, she had dreamed of this business for several years while enjoying work as a project manager in high tech. Upon degree completion, she worked for design/​build/​maintain contractors for 4 years before opening business full time in 2007.

It is her pleasure and very fulfilling work to be in collaboration with her clients desires, listening to them and discovering what they would love, imbuing her design ideas and expertise, and then going about creating their sanctuary for them.

Loving the horticultural aspect as well, Judy went on to develop another branch of her business specializing in Fine Aesthetic Pruning of trees, with a specialty in Japanese Maples. At times, she stays on to manage & do fine gardening on some of her design projects.

Meet the Business Owner

Judy M.

Business Owner

Landscape Design is a collaborative process. The aspect of listening & translating into a creation my client adores is a very important and rewarding aspect of my job.

Would you like a feeling of expansiveness in your garden? Use the space for outdoor rooms? Would you like a secret garden, a place to entertain, an edible wonderland, grasses? Asian, Japanese, serene garden? a whimsical oasis? Limitless possibilities for creative solutions, We work with large landscapes, intimate settings and everything in between.

I also write about gardens & design and have been published numerous times in magazines and newspapers.

Graduate — Landscape Design & Environmental Horticulture

Graduate — Aesthetic Pruning Program

Certified Bay Friendly Landscape Designer

Member — Association of Professional Landscape Designers

Member — Community Built Association

Member — Merritt College Pruning Club