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

Layers of time

Layers of time

by | 1 Mar 2022

In an off-the-beaten-track corner of Rome a week ago, I realised that the layers of living, shown here by the excavation, have a quality which is present in so many of the gardens where I work. How many untold years have people cultivated this soil before? Who were...

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A National Treasure!

A National Treasure!

by | 14 Feb 2022

I was just looking for some really good reclaimed slates and then Mark was on the end of the phone, and the next day I met him! He has been buying and selling slates since he was 17, his warehouse is immaculate, beyond organised, and he is the nicest and obviously...

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Too Much! Ouch!

Too Much! Ouch!

by | 24 Jan 2022

For whatever the reasons, this is just too much! Nature left on its own makes a perfect shaped oak tree that we can wonder at and admire. What romance!Our native oak can take 500 years or more to grow as large as it can, and then 300 years to die. So if you see along...

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