Hugh O'Connell

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Hugh O'Connell is a garden designer based on the Exeter Devon/Somerset border in the South West of the UK. This brochure of garden and landscape design examples and makeovers for the UK Garden Designer cannot provide anything like a complete picture of the skills we as garden and landscape designers can bring to bear on any design. Each project provides different challenges - each garden and makeover is different, as is every client's needs. We hope, however, that you will find a lot to interest you and that you will bookmark this site for future reference.

The Qualified Garden Design Associates work throughout Europe, Ireland, and the US. They have wide plant knowledge. Hugh O’Connell undertakes commissions in Devon, Dorset, Cornwall, Somerset, Avon, London and the UK South West. John Morris Dip La MLI works throughout the UK. Book a single advisory visit. Contact us for a free no obligation consultation.

Projects range from smaller gardens - both traditional and contemporary, seaside gardens, with or without conventional windbreaks, up to larger formal gardens, country parks and environmental projects.

Please explore our site by clicking the Menu at the top of the page and by using the Next Page/Previous Page links when available. Alternatively, use the site map page. You can even join our Forum and ask the Associates to help with a gardening problem! If you are a student, you can ask Hugh O'Connell about design problems or any other garden design issues. Hugh is only too pleased to help!

Latest News - 2010 Schemes

Seaside Garden
Seaside gardening without conventional windbreaks. Using land form to fracture wind. A garden in Cornwall.

Current Projects
Edwardian house garden of 4 acres near Bideford in Devon

Coastal garden in Widmouth Bay, Cornwall

Seaside garden in Cawsand, Cornwall

New build house large garden in the Cheddar valley near Wells Somerset.

400 year old stone Longhouse with large garden at South Zeal near Okehampton, Dartmoor Devon.

16c listed Elizabethan Manor Estate Park with gardens for new design and landscape in Cornwall near Bodmin.

Hybrid Magnolia (including Elizabeth) Walk design for a partly fully mature 18C garden in Derriford Plymouth, Devon.

The Royal Horticultural Society awarded Hugh O’Connell a second prize for his hard landscape design contribution for the ‘Square Garden’ competition.

“Since everything is but an apparition
perfect in being what it is,
having nothing to do with good or bad,
acceptance or rejection,
one may as well burst out in laughter.”

Longchenpa Rabjampa 1308 – 1369 master teacher in the Dzogchen Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism

“Laugh” and enjoy, then salute the Rosemoor Garden gardeners, whose background research, plant design work, planting, and maintenance ensures the garden's success.

This garden gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Tiverton in Bloom Certificate of Merit for 2007 and 2008

For details of the garden plants used in this garden, see the Ashley Combe page.

Gardens are for people

“What you will have, I hope, is a garden more beautiful than you had anticipated, with less care than you had expected, and costing only a little more than you had planned.”

Thomas Church American garden designer Californian school 1955 (1902–78)

The Sunday Times Gardening Book

"As a garden designer, I experience some of the same emotions as a nanny. Having made a garden, I always want to follow its development to maturity and see how it turns out."

Lanning Roper American born & UK work areas garden designer 1967 (1912 -83)