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

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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Colour, colour, colour!

Colour, colour, colour!

by | 21 Oct 2021

A visit to the old Tate a few days ago, found us standing in front of so many wonderful paintings by Turner. I still haven't recovered and don't want to! The beauty, the delicacy, the skill, the insight and intelligence and the passion of his use of colour and what he...

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Light is the magic!

Light is the magic!

by | 1 Sep 2021

This was the High Street in Oxford this morning, Wednesday. Yesterday was grey and raining, and tomorrow is forecast grey and raining. But today, the light is fantastic, a blue sky, you can see detail which is just not there at all in the so often grey. This is...

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