Rupert Keys

With over 30 years of experience in the landscape and construction industry, Rupert Keys is recognised as one of the leading lights in the UK’s landscape and training industry.

Having worked his way from the ground up, from a labouring gardener in Cheltenham Parks Department to studying Horticulture at Pershore, he has been running the highly successful business Keyscape Design & Construction, delivering gardens and landscape schemes nationwide for the last three decades. Rupert knows the landscape industry inside and out.

During his career, Rupert has used his expertise to build over 50 award-winning show gardens at some of the UK’s leading gardening events, including his first ever RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden in 1992, when he caught the bug! 

Teaching experience
TASK Academy, Garden Design School at Bristol Botanical Gardens, Cotswold Gardening School.

My work has been shown in/at Landscapers Circle, Pro Landscaper, Association of Professional Landscapers, Cotswold Life, BBC and Frances Tophill books. Rupert Keys is a member of SGD Society of Garden Designers, APL Association of Professional Landscapers and BALI British Association of Landscape Industries

Describe your approach to teaching
Fun, interactive and informative theory and practical experience.

What inspires your own work?
Rupert had a long-held ambition to set up a Training Centre of Excellence to provide high-quality training for industry professionals. Having worked in the industry most of his life, he witnessed the lack of training available and felt empowered to do something to make a positive change.