Oxford garden design with topiary, antique French café table, spring flowers and a traditional greenhouse.

Garden, Landscape & Architectural Design

Making romantic and atmospheric gardens in Oxford, the Cotswolds, the south of England and overseas. Working closely with the Owners, to create their haven of colour and inspiration, peace and beauty, for more than 20 years.
Old apple orchard in the Cotswolds with blossom and wildflowers and drystone wall.
New Cotswold stone wall with fragrant evergreen jasmine in flower growing on it.
Greek garden with old olive tree and drought tolerant Mediterranean planting by a swimming pool.
Good design is not a cost, it is a making and a saving of money, and a making of life and achievement. All history is the proof of this.

Laura Heybrook

Here we go!

Here we go!

It seems like only a few weeks ago the garden was fast asleep, then a few stirrings and then BOOM!  Look at this, still in March!  Gardening is fabulous, the roses are budding, there is blossom everywhere, seedlings are going mad, what a world, another year under way....

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Wonderful photographs!

Wonderful photographs!

Gardens and plants are so photographic, and here is the proof of it! I so often say, “a photograph is better than a thousand words”. When I am beginning to work with a new client, I ask them to look out all and any photographs that appeal to them, and I will do the...

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Right plant, right place!

Right plant, right place!

This is late May, the shadiest darkest corner of my garden which could be just a tip! Ferns, hellebores, foxgloves and brunnera love damp shady spots. In the urn are the fading leaves of Erythronium ‘Pagoda’.

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