Samantha Willis Garden Design

Samantha Willis Garden Design

Samantha Willis Garden Design Oxfordshire

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Samantha Willis Garden Design

We offer a complete garden design and build for your garden. From a small courtyard garden to a large country house.

With 15 years experience designing gardens in Oxfordshire and surrounding counties. Please don’t hesitate to contact us for an informal discussion

Our services include:

Garden Design and build in the Cotswolds view from house

Grass Growing final step to the garden design in the Cotswolds


Garden Design – This includes a complete design of your garden
Border Design – The structure of the garden is fine but the borders need some work. We’ll look at existing plants and review how to improve your borders
Landscaping – We bring in a team of landscapers to build the garden and oversee the project to ensure you get the garden you want.

Garden inspiration for Easter

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Garden Inspiration for Easter

Spring brings us the odd warm day and with it of delicous scents when we walk around the garden and often from unsung heros.

Daphne Aumarginata

Spring flower from Daphne Aumarginata


These plants are our evergreen heros providing us colour throught the winter. Then in the Spring food for insects and lovely aromas.

Daphe aumarginata has small lovely pink flowers and a delicious perfumed scent. It is relatively easy to grow liking a sheltered spot. If you can plant it close to your house to enjoy the early Spring scent you’re in for a treat. The shrub grows to approx 1.5 tall by 1.5 wide.

The easiest daphne with the strongest, lily-like fragrance from blue-pink waxy flowers. One bush in afternoon sun will fragrance an entire area in late spring
Val Bourne – Garden Writer Thankyou Crosus for the quote and you can find them at Crocus too. Crocus

Osmanthus hetrophyllus is a large evergreen shrub with dark holly like leaves and tiny white flowers that have a heavently scent. I do have this one in my garden and enjoy picking the odd sprig for a vase.

Berberis darwinii can be a large shrub but is used as a hedging plant. It has tiny holly shaped dark green leaves, smaller that the Osmanthus and very prickly. It has clusters of tiny orange flowers. Be careful not to plant it near Spring flowering shrubs that can clash. Burncoose Nursery supplies this Burnoose Nursery

Looking for more garden inspiration in Oxford and surrounding counties please contact us

Plant of the Month

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Plant of the Month

There are a number of beautiful plants coming into flower in March removing the gloom from the winter days.

I love the Camellias, many areas in Oxford do not have the ericaceous soil for Camellias but you can still enjoy them in a pot. Northamptonshire has places of acidic soil and are therefore perfect for planting these plants.

Image of white flowering Camellia Shrub

Camellia japonica ‘Jovey Carlyon’

The Camellias come in all sorts of colours and sizes from single flowers to double blooms.
One I discovered the other day was Camellia japnoica ‘Jovey Carlyon’ with its double white flower. Burncoose nursery in Cornwall supplies this plant Burncose nursery

Camellia japnica ‘Adelina Patti’ is a stunning single flower with soft pink veined petals and framed with white edging. If you want to find out more about it have a look at Burncose Nusery Burncose nursery

Camellia williamsii hybrid Anticipation is a beautiful red double flower and whilst it can grow to 4m hight it is also good one for container planting Ashwood nurseries can supply this plant

Planting Camellias

When planting your Camellia it needs neutral to acidic soil remember to plant them in a sheltered position so late frosts don’t get the flowers.

They enjoy being in dappled shade with their roots kept damp. When not in flower their dark green glossy leaf adds an excellent backdrop to other shrubs in the garden border

If you’re going to plant them in a pot remember its ericaceous compost you need and then a regular feed to keep the soil neutral.

If you’re looking for a little more garden inspiration for your garden as summer approaches please call for an informal chat to discuss your garden design needs

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About

My love for gardening started with my Nan where she nurtured her Cornish garden often rising at 5 to set to before the heat of the summer… MORE

How does it work?

My practice is based in Oxford. I work with small professional teams to develop everything from the tiniest urban hideaway to large country gardens... MORE

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