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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.

Joe Perkins
Feb 3, 20229 min read


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 edging to define a pathway, create a transition from the patio to the surrounding area.

Joe Perkins
Aug 28, 20203 min read


Designing for Sustainable Gardens
Do you want to create a sustainable garden and adopt sustainable gardening practices? There are lots of measures we can take to reduce the negative impact of our activities on the environment, and to enhance all the positives

Joe Perkins
Jun 18, 20203 min read


Best Trees for Small Gardens
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.

Joe Perkins
Jun 6, 20203 min read


Design Tips for small gardens
<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 […]</p>

Joe Perkins
Apr 24, 20205 min read


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.

Joe Perkins
Jan 9, 20192 min read


Some amazing winter plants
<p>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 ‘Autumnalis’ – a fantastic form of the flowering Cherry, […]</p>

Joe Perkins
Jan 9, 20194 min read


RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019 Announcement!
<p>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 benefits of social media as a powerful tool for engaging […]</p>

Joe Perkins
Dec 4, 20181 min read


Reflections on the Ascot Spring Show 2018
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.

Joe Perkins
Aug 4, 20181 min read
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