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

The Beauty of Spring

The Beauty of Spring

by | 14 Mar 2017

What total bliss it has been savouring the lengthening days and the beauty of spring. No wonder so many writers are inspired by it. The warm weather is surely coming and soon the air will be soft and it will be sowing weather. Here are some photos I took yesterday in...

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Buxus

Buxus

by | 14 Mar 2017

I adore all varieties of box, with glorious Buxus sempervirens as a desert island plant choice – I just couldn’t imagine a garden without it. Laura Heybrook Garden, Landscape & Architectural Designer plant many varieties and forms of Buxus regularly in their...

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Bonanza blossoms!

Bonanza blossoms!

by | 23 May 2016

The early, golden days of summer are upon us and this year seem even more sensational. Several Head Gardeners have commented that they’ve never know blossom as good and I couldn’t agree more. Country lanes are overflowing with flowering hawthorn, cowparsley and other...

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sprigs