EVERY now and then a dream partnership comes along that changes everything: Lennon and McCartney, Morecambe and Wise, Gilbert and Sullivan.

Now a new partnership is on the scene with the hope of transforming gardens across Oxfordshire and further afield.

Pete Downes and Jack McKenna are the team behind Kew Green, an Oxford-based landscaping company that earlier this month picked up a silver medal at the Royal Horticultural Society Hampton Court Palace Flower Show for a Japanese summer garden.

The company was set up eight years ago but Mr McKenna, who has qualifications in landscape architecture, joined a few months ago and the business rebranded.

Now, following on from their Hampton Court Palace award, the pair are ready to take on the world.

Dad-of-one Mr Downes said: "When Jack came along with his design head we started doing a new sort of landscaping.

"It is a little bit more interesting, it is more design led and we felt like we were creating something rather than just laying a patio.

"It is something that is popular in Oxfordshire.

"Back in 2008 with the recession people were not spending money on their houses and gardens but that has changed."

Mr McKenna, 24, said: "Our gardens are an extension of the house really, that is how we look at it.

"We try to bring what the person does inside outside and reflect it in the garden and design it around that."

The pair's Japanese garden at Hampton Court Palace was designed by a London firm but on most projects Mr McKenna and Mr Downes do all the work from start to finish.

They recently finished a project which saw them transform the garden of a house in Kennington.

Headington resident Mr McKenna said: "The owner contacted us last June wanting some work done on her garden.

"She had recently had an extension that was quite modern and she wanted a garden to tie in with that and a place to entertain.

"I was still at university at the time and I worked with Pete on some design work.

"It is good to see it turn from a plan to reality. We are on site all the time so if there any problems or anything we want to change we can sort it at the time."

Mr McKenna and Mr Downes are about to start work on a five-week project to create a wildlife garden at a house in Radley.

The company also picked up a gold medal at the Blenheim Palace Flower Show last year.

Mr Downes said: "When we work on a garden it becomes our garden as well to a certain extent, it is nice in that respect.

"Hopefully we will end up with a county covered in Kew Green gardens.

"We have got a lot of enquiries."