Born in 1977, the son of two teachers, Barney grew up in Oxted in Surrey and learned from his mother the pleasure that a beautiful garden brings. He studied garden design at Merrist Wood Horticultural College before planting his latent talent in the big wide world. Before the creation of H&F, when he was 31, he was able to learn from top to bottom the art of creating the right garden for the right space. A great deal of what he learned about plants came from . . .

A vastly experienced nurseryman, plantsman and garden designer with numerous accreditations and awards, Ian was an invited lecturer at Kew on his speciality of grafting Acers and Gingkos. Sadly, Ian died far too young in 2010 and we keep his name in our title as a testament to a great bloke and a great gardener, who freely passed on his vast knowledge to others.

Harrison and FitzRoy did a great job with our garden. It was overgrown, full of weeds and needed a complete re-design. After looking at other companies, we chose H&F for their design and enthusiasm for plants. This was evident in the final result. They rotavated the tired soil, cleared all weeds, set out the new lawn and placed new plants in a way that has entertained us ever since througout the seasons. I'd highly recommend them to anyone.

We moved from a woodland garden with substantial views and Barney Harrison created within our new smaller garden a surprising number of intriguing vistas and a feeling of space. He worked with skill to include our thoughts and produced imaginative designs. At the end of the day our garden reflects his vision, our ambitions and plants of interest throughout the year! Our visitors are always surprised and stunned by the unexpected depth of our garden. We love it!

I chose Harrison and FitzRoy having looked at a number of designers for something very specific I wanted to create in my relatively small London garden. I had the idea of extending the internal space in the house to the garden and creating "external rooms" that would be low maintenance but allow me to entertain friends. They took my rather amateurish first draft and enhanced the ideas with thoughts on layout and planting that have now been delivered in the final design of the garden. The team were great to work with too, ensuring I was involved in the minor decisions along the way and Barney has been great afterwards in ensuring my ideas were delivered in the placing of the plants in and around the borders. The garden is now something I have enjoyed over the course of the last year, seeing it change and develop through the seasons into a place all the family now enjoy spending time in.

I would personally recommend Harrison & Fitzroy Landscape Design to anyone considering a redesign of their garden. We really appreciated Barney Harrison’s ‘personal touch’ in listening carefully to what we wanted, and then giving us something even better than we had imagined. The end result is a combination of gorgeous planting with practicality which is now the envy of all our friends! The combination of Barney’s horticultural knowledge and skills as a designer make him a pleasure to work with and, once the ‘digging’ started, I also found that there’s nothing ‘flowery’ about his work ethic. In spite of the scale of the task, he and his colleague worked through all the hottest days of summer and cheerily shifted many tons of soil, bricks, stone and slabs to push the work to completion. Always pleasant and enthusiastic, Harrison & Fitzroy stick to their budget, are a pleasure to work with, and made the whole process enjoyable.