For many homeowners, one of the biggest concerns when commissioning a garden or landscape project is: “Will it get approved?” Whether...

Can our curiousity save landscapes? Joe Perkins MSGLD's Garden for the Future at Sheffield Park in Sussex is not just a space for the public to enjoy. Its planting has been carefully selected to test for resilience to harsh conditions, to help inform those facing the challenge of caring for Britain's heritage landscapes. Arabella St John Parker finds out more. A few months after the 2019 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Joe Perkins MSGLD received an email from Laura Booty, General Ma

BACK TO THE FUTURE Sheffield Park and Garden in East Sussex has opened its new Garden for the Future, designed by landscape architect and...

Joe Perkins Design has announced its collaboration with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) to redevelop the Medjez-El-Bab war cemetery in Tunisia into a climate resilient, biodiverse and sustainable space. 

At Joe Perkins Design, we are currently working on a project in partnership with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC): the transformation of Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery in Tunisia. This historic site, where over 2,900 Commonwealth servicemen are buried, will become a model for climate-resilient, biodiverse, and sustainable landscape design, honouring both memory and place.

Head gardeners try out more diverse and drought-resistant plants from around the world, with fascinating results

At Sheffield Park & Garden, a landmark National Trust property, a forward-thinking approach to horticulture is flourishing.

These are the top garden trends for 2025, according to Chelsea garden designers Understanding garden trends goes far beyond aesthetic choices. What landscape experts are doing says so much about our evolving climate as well as our understanding of the science around how nature impacts our health and wellbeing. Garden and landscape designers are at the very forefront of understanding what British garden design will be in the years to come, how gardens will function for us, wha

Photography: Clive Nichols It takes a great team to make a great show garden, and we certainly had that. The project team included The Landscaping Consultants as main contractor, glass artist James Cockerill, architect and fabricator Sam Ogilvie, joiner Oli Carter, metalsmith Richard Weaver and specialist finisher Nathan Irvine. That doesn’t even mention our amazing suppliers and excellent planting team, so I think overall our team was in excess of 50 people. Check our portfo

We’re thrilled to be mentioned not once but twice in Country Living this month as part of their 40th birthday celebration and special feature ‘40 Avant Garden Trends’. Both our RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden with The Kings Trust ‘Seeding Success’, and our project with the National Trust at Sheffield Park and Garden ‘Garden for the Future’, were included – and we couldn’t be prouder! It’s a real privilege to be working with such fantastic organisations on projects that celebra

The Vision The Glade at Sheffield Park and Garden is a sympathetic modernisation of a peripheral corner of the Grade I listed garden....

The Chelsea Flower Show, the annual spectacle hosted by the Royal Horticultural Society, remains the epitome of horticultural elegance and innovation. I was judging at the show this year, so had the privilege of seeing the gardens at their best on Sunday morning. Here are some of the key trends that I think defined the show this year.

We reveal how bringing in a landscape designer can improve your home renovation project or extension

Read the BBC coverage of the Sheffield Park 2024 National Trust Garden Project.

Thoughts on seasonal, resilient and sustainable landscape and design

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.

<p>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 characteristics rather than fighting against them. When it comes [&hellip;]</p>

New Garden Designers – the freshest talent in horticulture

Joe Perkins has designed an intimate and secluded garden, offering privacy and brimming with seasonal planting.

In April 2018 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 chosen plants and products. My garden was one of 6.