James Dashwood Landscape Design

About James Dashwood Landscape Design

Designing gardens that belong. Based in the Oxfordshire, we create spaces that are unashamedly romantic — layered, generous, atmospheric — but which sit comfortably in their surroundings, as though they had always been there. Every garden begins with the place itself: the fall of the land, the local stone, the architecture and history of the site. We take time to understand a garden's context before a line is drawn, so the result feels inevitable rather than imposed. Expect naturalistic planting, strong bones and gentle abundance. Craft runs through everything. We love traditional techniques and honest materials — dry stone, cleft oak, reclaimed limestone — and an obsession with patina: the way good materials weather and improve with age. For all its romance, this is a practice built on listening. Every garden is shaped around the people who live in it — how you entertain, whether children will tear around the lawn, how much gardening you honestly want to do. We take as much pleasure in solving the practical as the poetic.