Nigel Philips trained at Merrist Wood College and has been a practising garden designer since 1982. In that time, he has carried out a wide variety of design commissions, including several gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show.
He has lectured in related subjects for the Royal Horticultural Society and has been involved with running various courses on garden design for the last twenty-five years at Plumpton College.
His involvement with the Society of Garden Designers over the last thirty has resulted being a Fellow of the Society in 1998 and more recently he has become a designer member of BALI (The British Association of Landscape Industry).