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Landscaping in Steventon, Abingdon and across Oxfordshire

Gardens she can’t fault.

Patios, lawns, fencing, decking and complete garden transformations. Built properly, and finished like she’s coming round on Sunday.

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Vetted and approved by TrustATrader. 4.89 out of 5 from 71 reviews.

A grey deck with a woven sofa and sun lounger, a sleeper-edged border, a closeboard fence and a sunlit lawn.
Grey decking, sleeper edging and a lawn: the room with no roof.

The name’s a joke. The standard isn’t.

Every family has someone who runs a finger along the skirting board. We build for her: edges that are crisp, joints that are even, fences that stand up straight.

No two gardens are the same, so we start by finding out what you want. Rob and the team suggest the materials and the layout, give you a clear quote, and explain what’s happening as they go.

In the trade
More than 15 years
Customers
Homes and businesses
Based in
Steventon, Oxfordshire
Close view of a striped lawn running alongside a sandstone path edged with setts.
The edge is where she looks first.

The best room in the house has no roof.

Here’s how we’d fit it out.

  1. Front door

    Block paving and gravel drives, sandstone paths and setts, five-bar and double gates, and the drainage that keeps them dry.

    She’ll look at the gate first.

    • Herringbone block paving
    • Gravel
    • Sandstone
    A timber five-bar gate beside a herringbone block-paved drive and gravel.

  2. Floors

    Sandstone, porcelain and block paving. New turf or artificial lawn, laid on ground that’s been prepared properly.

    She’ll check the joints, then the edges.

    • Quartz White
    • Mint
    • Desert Sand
    • Rippon Buff
    • Kandla Grey
    A curved sandstone patio edged in brick setts, beside a striped lawn.

  3. Walls

    Fencing and trellis, sleeper, brick and slate-clad retaining walls, and gabions.

    She’ll lean on the fence.

    • Closeboard
    • Sleeper
    • Brick
    • Slate
    A long sandstone path between two brick retaining walls with sandstone coping, leading to a lawn.

  4. Fittings

    Decking, pergolas and arbours, raised sleeper beds, steps, electric points and lighting.

    She’ll sit on the bench.

    • Timber
    • Grey decking
    A timber gazebo with seating, on a lawn with stepping stones leading up to it.

  5. Plumbing

    Drainage and ACO channels, levelling, topsoil, retaining walls and waste removal. The part nobody photographs.

    She’ll ask where the water goes.

    • Drainage
    • Topsoil
    An orange drainage pipe laid in a trench beside a brick wall.

  6. Housekeeping

    Lawn scarifying and top dressing, courtesy cuts, pruning, small tree work and garden clearance.

    She’ll notice in a fortnight.

    • Turf
    • Top dressing
    A green scarifying machine being pushed across a lawn.

A proper look.

Real jobs, photographed by the team on site.

A large lawn mown in stripes, with young staked trees and a red-brick house behind.
A big lawn, mown in stripes, with young trees staked out.
A pine tree with a curved sleeper bench and a stepped raised bed built around its base.
A seat built round a pine tree, from sleepers.
Sandstone paving laid in a sweeping curve, edged with setts, beside a striped lawn.
Sandstone laid in a curve, edged with setts.
Slate-clad terraced raised beds with steps, planting and a patio below.
Slate-clad terraces, with steps and planting.
A porcelain terrace stepping up to sleeper-edged beds and a lawn under a blue sky.
A porcelain terrace, stepping up to the lawn.
Grey porcelain paving with a raised sleeper bed, a timber arbour and red-brick walls.
Grey porcelain, a raised bed and an arbour.
Brick steps with sandstone treads climbing between two brick walls capped in sandstone.
Brick steps, sandstone treads and coping.
A small walled garden with new turf, gravel and two timber raised beds under a blue sky.
A small walled garden: new turf, gravel, sleeper beds.
A mini digger working in a freshly excavated garden beside a new house.
Where most gardens are really made.

Most of a good garden is underneath.

Before the turf, there’s a digger. Before the paving, there’s a drain. On one job that meant taking away 100 tonnes of waste, then laying 200 m² of block paving, 100 m² of porcelain and 100 metres of fencing. On another, 20 tonnes of topsoil and a retaining wall nobody will ever see. It’s thirsty work: at least 40 cans of Fanta on one hot job, and a lot of biscuits and pancakes on the wet ones.

Figures and stories from the team’s own job posts on Facebook.

Marked by the people who paid.

4.89 out of 5, from 71 reviews on TrustATrader

Vetted and approved by TrustATrader, with no missed appointments in the past six months.

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From start to finish Rob and the team were professional, fast, and thorough.

Melissa, TrustATrader, July 2026

I am so pleased with the structural work that has been completed, the contact before, during and after the job.

Donna, TrustATrader, August 2026

I cannot recommend them enough! From quote through to completion everything was easy and as agreed and beyond.

Melissa L., Facebook

Very friendly, experienced and professional.

Jesse, TrustATrader, October 2026

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Quotes are free and there’s no obligation. We’d always tell you to get a few, so you can see how ours compares.

07803 564192

Based in Steventon, Oxfordshire. Covering Oxfordshire and surrounding areas, including Abingdon and South Marston.

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