Designing wonderful gardens for you and your family to enjoy for years to come.
Design illustration for a family garden.
Creating the garden your home deserves, where you can relax with family and friends, can feel daunting. Which plants? Which materials? and how to design spaces you can be proud of and love to spend time?
Don’t be daunted. Designing and building your new garden should be exciting, and the process can be uncomplicated.
Whether you have a generous space in the countryside or a compact urban garden, with the right design your garden will be much loved by family and friends (and birds and bees) for years to come. The skill is to bring into your garden the wonder and joy of plants and flowers, and create inviting spaces you love to spend time, in a style that reflects your personality, while keeping maintenance to a level that works for your lifestyle.
This is what I love to do.
About James
I am an award-winning garden designer based in Oxfordshire, and started Kemp Garden Design in 2024. As a student at the prestigious KLC School of Design in London, I won the Grand Design Award and the West Dean Trustees Prize ‘For outstanding achievement by a Design student’. One of the judges’ comments that I especially appreciated was that the garden I designed for ‘mingling, dining and dancing’ made him smile.
“His scheme is joyous and creates a wonderful sense of place, with modernity blended with environmental awareness with style, colour and flair.” Alistair W. Baldwin
Gardens are for living and connecting. This is what I design gardens for - for families who want lovely gardens where the whole family can rest, play, and enjoy themselves all year round, and for years to come.
Awards
West Dean Trustees’ Prize School for Outstanding achievement by a Design student, 2024
Winner of the KLC Grand Design Award, awarded by renowned garden designer Alistair Baldwin, 2023