
Meet the Designer
Lisa has been designing gardens longer than most landscape companies have existed.
Oasiscapes is Lisa. One designer, thirty years, your yard.
Thirty years ago, Lisa walked her first client's yard, drew her first plan on graph paper, and discovered the thing she would do for the rest of her life. She trained the hard way. Long hours in nurseries learning what actually survives a Florida summer. Years apprenticing under senior designers learning composition. A decade installing other designers' work before she ever signed her own name to a plan. By the time Oasiscapes opened, she had already seen ten thousand yards and the patterns of what makes a small one feel large, a flat one feel alive, a forgotten one feel cared for.
She started Oasiscapes after a string of conversations that all sounded the same. Homeowners would call the big firms with a beautiful house and a sad front yard, and the big firms would politely decline. Too small. Not enough margin. Try a maintenance company. Lisa heard it enough times to know there was a real gap, and she had the skill to fill it.
"A yard is a slow argument with a house. My job is to make them friends."
Her plant philosophy is Florida-first, native-when-it-fits, ornamental-when-it-earns-its-place. She designs in layers: structure, midstory, color, texture. She picks plants that perform in year three, not just the day they're delivered.
Process
How Lisa Works
01
The Walk
Lisa walks your property, listens to how you use it, photographs the bones.
02
The Plan
A drawn design with plant list, layout, materials, and a clear scope of work.
03
The Install
Her crew, her oversight, her plant selection. No subcontractor surprises.
04
The First Year
A check-in walk at month three and month nine. We catch what needs adjusting.
Beliefs
What Lisa Believes
A great yard reveals itself slowly.
We design for year three, not the install photo.
The right plant in the wrong place is the wrong plant.
Sun, soil, salt, slope. They all vote.
Small projects, designed well, change how a home feels.
Scope is not the same as impact.
Restraint is a design choice.
What you leave out matters as much as what you plant.
Native, naturalized, then ornamental.
In that order, with intent.
Every project is mine, start to finish.
I don't hand you off.