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

Now is the moment!

Now is the moment!

by | 14 Oct 2023

Not a day to lose, October is bulb planting time and also November! The choice is extraordinary. You can have the most amazing colours of disco lights and fireworks from January to July! In the garden, pots, lawns, woodland, house, roadside, anywhere! Bulbs and corms...

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The BBOWT Environmental Educational Garden

The BBOWT Environmental Educational Garden

by | 2 Oct 2023

The task was to bring new life to the BBOWT Environmental Education Centre at Sutton Courteney, on land leased from Didcot Power Station. BBOWT is the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. What a great name, once heard always remembered!...

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Setting the scene, a stage set

Setting the scene, a stage set

by | 29 Aug 2023

The whole world is a play! When you get an entrance right like any of these, with such a strong sense of invitation, one is drawn in. Even the dark green gates, you want to know what is behind. Such beauty, such poise, such high art in all of them, rustic country...

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