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

Tulips

Tulips

by | 29 May 2018

With the cold late spring passing, so too have the tulips. I pulled the last tulips up on the 20th May for a clean slate to trial and experiment again next year. (We make sure the clients only get the best!) Less than a week later, after some beautifully warm...

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Importing Dutch bulbs to the UK

Importing Dutch bulbs to the UK

by | 13 Apr 2018

I was fascinated by this photo taken at the end of the 19th Century in Northern Holland. After the bulbs were harvested from the fertile polders, they were packed and transported by men and dog carts who walked to the nearby ports, including Amsterdam and Rotterdam....

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Lent Lily

Lent Lily

by | 3 Apr 2018

Driving back from a meeting in Norwich after the Easter weekend, my breath was caught when I glimpsed banks of our wild daffodil, Narcissus lobularis, naturalised to perfection in a Suffolk churchyard.St Mary, Henstead has always entranced me. It is raised proudly on...

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