A City Garden

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.

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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

Setting the scene, a stage set

Setting the scene, a stage set

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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Lookout! New website

Lookout! New website

Here is the wonderful Emma DeBanks! who has pulled it all together and it was quite a pull!  Without her, it wouldn’t have been possible.  Micky Harris, and his son George of DMD have been incredibly patient and accommodating, I know I have driven them to edge of...

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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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