To the average person, the garden looks 100% natural, like it's been here for a lifetime and and as if it organically grew into its current chaotic charm. What few know is that it was professionally designed by U.S. landscape architect, Christy Ten Eyck of Ten Eyck Landscape Architects. Thanks to the knowledge she acquired of the vegetation and local materials, she transformed the landscape into an expression of Alamos. Over the years, the garden gained notoriety and was published in various architecture and scholarly articles. We are proud to call it home and we know you will enjoy its beauty as much as we do.
La Quinta has been published in magazines such as the Journal of the Southwest in an article titled Surreal Garden in Alamos, Mexico, 2003 By John Messina, Arizona based architect and photographer and by Lauri Macmillan Johnson, Director of University of Arizona College of Landscape Architecture and Planning. The Journal of the Southwest was the first American Southwestern history magazine in the United States. Journal of the Southwest publishes widely in disciplines including intellectual and social history, gender and women's studies, LGBTQ studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, folklore, politics, border studies, literature, photography, geography and natural history, and ecology.
Also published in the Tucson Lifestyle Home & Garden Edition, 2003 in an article titled A Garden With A Sonoran Spirit by Judith Ratliff, landscape architect in Arizona.
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