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Oxfordshire, OX28 6JA info@oxfordgardendesign.co.uk 01993 813721 www.oxfordgardendesign.co.uk
About Oxford Garden Design & Maintenance
We design and build gardens for people to love! A Garden Design, Garden Landscaping and Garden Maintenance company, based in Witney, Oxfordshire. Our garden designers have the ideas and inspiration to create a garden that will delight. We listen to your issues, to your likes and to your dreams and we combine this with our expertise and knowledge to deliver a garden that you will enjoy for many years. Our professional landscaping team can dig beds, build walls, prepare and lay lawns, put up fences, install water features and garden lighting schemes, lay patios, paths and install decking to create major features in your perfect garden. Our experienced horticulturalists and grounds staff look after and maintain all sorts of shapes and sizes of gardens from lawns and borders to tree care, ensuring that you can enjoy your garden all year round. Oxford Garden Design transforms gardens in the following towns and surrounding villages: Abingdon, Aylesbury, Banbury, Bibury, Bicester, Bletchley, Bourton-on-the-Water, Bracknell, Buckingham, Burford, Cheltenham, Chipping Campden, Cirencester, Didcot, Evesham, Faringdon, High Wycombe, Marlborough, Morton-in-Marsh, Northampton, Oxford, Reading, Stroud, Wantage, and Woodstock Since 2001, we have built a reputation not only for designing and building beautiful gardens, but also for excellent service. Services offered include: Garden Design, Garden Landscaping, Garden Maintenance, Garden Clearance, Garden Tree Services - Pruning Trees and Planting Trees, Garden Irrigation, Garden Lighting, Creating Wildflower Meadows, Garden Design for Newly Built Homes, Contemporary Garden Design, Cotswold Cottage Garden Design. We are passionate about creating the very best gardens for our clients, whether they are working with a large country garden, an urban space or a completely new space.
Areas covered
Midlands, North Thames, South West
Types of work undertaken
- Irrigation (up to £50,000)
- Design Facility (unlimited)
- Commercial (unlimited)
- Hard Landscaping (unlimited)
- Arboriculture (up to £50,000)
- Grounds Maintenance (up to £100,000)
- Fencing (up to £10,000)
- Soft Landscaping (unlimited)
- Domestic (unlimited)
- Synthetic Surfaces (up to £50,000)
- Decking (up to £50,000)
- Ponds And Water Features (up to £50,000)
- Forestry/Mature Tree (up to £50,000)
- Disabled/Historic Gardens (unlimited)
Testimonials
Contemporary Garden Design in Oxford
read more"Oxford Garden Design have done an excellent job transforming a patch of bare grass into a wonderful garden for us to enjoy. We really wanted a low maintenance garden which is exactly what we got. The whole team were a pleasure to work with."
- Hans and Lorrie Dinger, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Garden Design and Landscaping
read more" The majority of the work was carried out in winter months in awful weather but the dedication of the team was fantastic and the quality of work was excellent. A year on and the garden looks fantastic and draws much praise and admiration; it also gives me a great deal of pleasure."
- Neil Summerfield, Wallingford, Oxfordshire
Garden Design Bourne End
read more"Sheena designed our garden a few years ago now. She really listened to us and got a very clear idea of what we loved and wanted in terms of plants, design, structure and mood. We loved what she designed and still do! It grows and improves year on year and she did the most amazing job. Thank you so much!"
- Tessa Suggett, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire
Projects
RHS Malvern 2023 Gold
We are delighted that 'The Wildlife Trusts: Wilder Spaces' garden designed by Oxford Garden Design's Jamie Langlands won a Gold Medal at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2023. The wonderful design also won Best Show Garden, Best Construction Award and the People's Choice Award.
RHS Malvern Silver Gilt
Oxford Garden Design - Malvern 2022, winning a Silver Gilt
Small City Garden
Our clients wanted a ‘wow’ factor garden, this is particularly important when space is at a premium and the whole back of the property overlook the area.
A small garden has to work hard to achieve a lot in limited space – a walk to the office, a play area, a place to relax, a dining area as well as space to store five bikes was a challenge in a 10x5m garden!
This garden has been built to last using good quality, locally sourced materials such as untreated oak.
A Garden for Wildlife
A Cottage Garden Designed to Attract Wildlife
This charming cottage is set in a half-acre plot with a beautiful rural landscape, overlooking The Downs, surrounded by farmland. The owners felt that the garden it did not compliment the cottage. They wanted a much more ‘English Countryside’ feel and wanted to attract wildlife, in particular birds, into the garden. The owners chose OGD to completely transform their garden because we offer a full service, from design through to installation of ponds, plants and even lighting.
Contemporary Modern Garden Design
Garden design for a contemporary space
The owner of this newly built property wanted to have a garden with 'wow' factor. As with most newly built houses, the garden was a completely blank canvas - there we no constraints. The design centred on extending the interior of the house, which was decorated in a contemporary style, into the garden and incorporated a wonderful corten steel water feature, clean decking and block planting. The mirror pool is surrounded by a mixed hardwood decking, complimenting the corten steel.
Contemporary Garden in Traditional Setting
Garden design with a musical twist
Our client had just completed work to turn a barn into a music studio when his thoughts turned to improving the garden. As the client is a musician and very open to suggestions and different ideas, Jamie decided to give the garden a musical theme with the design was inspired by the inside of the client's boudoir piano. The winding path, clipped shrubs and flowing hedging emulate the inner workings of a piano. This theme continues with the harmonious, rhythmic pattern of planting.
A Walled Garden
Once clients got planning permission to open up the back of their house with a series of French windows and a garden room they wanted to change the back garden from a car park to a secluded, walled garden, although space was still required for parking. They wanted to enjoy the garden from the improved 'visibility' on the ground floor and wanted a company who could do a design and then carry out the landscaping work, the complete service from beginning to end.
Large Country Garden
The garden before was laid to grass with a slope leading down to the house. There were no plants and one lovely, but lonely damson tree. There was no patio or practical area to sit and because of the slope the chairs and table slid down the hill. Emma created a design that broke the garden down into different areas for planting and seating with separate firepit, BBQ and pizza oven area for cooking. Jakub was the main landscaper, constructing the walls, pergolas, archways, water features and steps.
Creating 'Rooms' in a Garden
Our clients already had their designed when they approached us to do the landscaping. An extension had recently been built and they wanted the garden to be landscaped to create more space and an area of lawn levelled by building a retaining wall. In a larger garden, such as this, the area can be divided into separate 'rooms,' each with a different theme or purpose, but there must be a broad overview of the whole composition to ensure that the different components are in harmony.
Transforming a Field into a Garden
Field to garden in less than a year
Soon after people move into a new property they consider making changes to their new garden. In this case, there was a lot of open grass fields and the client wanted to introduce more of a structure to the garden with paths, raised beds, a greenhouse, an area for growing vegetables and more borders. A garden design was required to bring all the elements together in a cohesive way.
Cottage Garden on a Slope
Garden design for a Sloping Garden
We completely transformed this cottage garden, which is on a slope, by creating a series of extra outdoor 'rooms' for entertaining and relaxing linked with steps and pathways. When it is at its peak, in the summer, there are areas to sit, enjoy the views and scent of the herbs. But the structure of this garden is best seen in the winter. There are low, topiary hedges and structural planting, such as standard viburnum tinus which gives interest to the garden all year round.
Small Town Garden
The owners of this Oxford garden had just moved from a house with a larger garden. They almost didn't buy the house because the garden was an issue, basically a dull patch of grass with pots of plants from their old garden. However, they realised that there was potential and with the help of Oxford Garden Design set about designing the outdoor space to suit their lifestyle. Above all the owners did not want to feel a slave to the garden.
A Gardener's Garden
After a hot summer, this newly built garden was looking neglected. The lawn and much of the planting was brown and parched. The new owners got in touch as soon as they moved in and together we set about the transformation. We decided to divide the garden into different sections, with space for growing vegetables in raised beds and a special area for the children's play equipment. The plants were chosen to give several seasons of interest and colours were combined to give an overall harmonious effect.
