The Garden In September
August has been very different this year, usually it’s the month where the garden sort of takes a bit of a rest – all the manic spring growth has levelled off, the optimism of Spring and early Summer flowers, including most of the roses, has past.
Chelsea Flower Show 2022 Roundup
We’re so proud and truly honoured to have been awarded an RHS Gold Medal for The Meta Garden on Main Avenue at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show. The garden was over 2 years in the making by a team of over 100 talented individuals from more than 10 different companies....
Chelsea Flower Show 2022
For a second year, Meta and Joe Perkins Design have partnered for RHS Chelsea Flower Show, returning in 2022 with The Meta Garden: Growing the Future.
Garden Edging – Ideas & Tips
Looking for garden edging ideas for your outdoor space?Garden edging helps to define and separate spaces in your garden, whilst also contributing to the overall garden design. Garden edging can accentuate your lawn, flower beds or vegetable garden. You may want to use...
Designing for Sustainable Gardens
Do you want to create a sustainable garden and adopt sustainable gardening practices?In addition to gardening in a consciously sustainable way, reducing or preferably omitting use of pesticides for example, there are lots of measures we can take to reduce the negative...
Best Trees for Small Gardens
Questions you need to ask.There are so many lovely trees for the smaller garden it makes it hard to choose. When I’m selecting one for a design project I start by focussing on what the tree is for and what the existing conditions are like. So for example, is autumn...
Design Tips for small gardens
Where to start?When I embark on a new design project I start by trying to identify the character of the site, what makes it different or special. This doesn’t have to be ground-breaking detective work, but it does help if you are working with the dominant...
Chelsea Flower Show 2019 Roundup
Well, we did it! An amazing team effort from so many people. The best bit for me was that everyone involved was so proud of the garden and put so much energy and enthusiasm into it - that made it a really special project for me.Of course winning a Gold Medal at...
Chelsea Flower Show 2019 Update
Difficult to know where to start but I think it’s safe to say that since January 7th 2019, it’s pretty much been all about Chelsea for me. Monday 7th January was a very early start, flying to Hamburg to make the final and critical choice for the second large pine tree...
Some amazing winter plants
Brighten up your garden in this early part of the year. Here are some of my favourite picks which, aside from the well-known snowdrops and hellebores, can lift our spirits with their flowers or stems and remind us that Spring is not far away.Prunus x subhirtella...
Lets celebrate the Winter Garden!
Get outside in the garden this winter and be rewarded with a great sense of achievement and connection with nature. The garden in winter can be surprisingly full of life and on crisp sunny days it’s always a relief for me to be out and about.Sussex garden in winter....
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019
Very excited to reveal that I have designed a show garden for Chelsea 2019! The garden, sponsored by social media giant Facebook, is a 10x10m plot in the ‘Space to Grow’ category of show gardens. The theme of the garden is connectivity, celebrating the positive...
Reflections on the Ascot Spring Show 2018
In April this year I exhibited a small show garden at the inaugural Ascot Spring Show. For its first year, I thought the show was remarkably well-organised and provided visitors with a great mix of inspiration, horticultural advice and opportunities to buy some well...