Meet the explorers...
Joe Perkins
Founder & Principal
With over 25 years of experience creating gardens in the UK and abroad, Joe focuses on how well-designed green spaces can enhance wellbeing and address environmental concerns.
Natalia Perkins
Co-Founder and Head of Business Development and Marketing
With a background in the Arts and a keen eye for visual storytelling, she brings a critical and creative perspective to the practice, helping to shape its identity and drive its growth.
Llewellyn Thomas
Senior Landscape Architect
Llewellyn is a qualified Landscape Architect and has over a decade of experience in the industry. He has extensive experience on both large public realm developments and a diverse range of private gardens.
Matt Dancsecs
Garden Designer (Technical Lead)
With over 15 years of experience in landscape construction and design, Matt combines hands-on expertise with creative flair. His formal training in garden design, paired with a meticulous eye for detail, brings precision, professionalism and a passion for continual learning to the studio.
Katie Ryan
Garden Designer
Katie blends her background in graphic design with a passion for plants, creating gardens that support biodiversity and promote wildlife. She brings strong visual skills and a creative, inquisitive approach to every project.
Chloe Hamblen
Consultant Planting Designer
Chloe brings a strong design sensibility from her previous career in fashion, now channelled into sustainable planting design. Passionate about ecology and community spaces, her work is driven by a desire to reconnect people with nature.
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Marian Clark
Consultant Landscape Architect
Marian Clark is a qualified Landscape Architect and Garden Designer with over 20 years of experience in the landscape design industry. She has worked on projects in more than 20 countries across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America, contributing to a diverse range of private gardens and public realm developments.
Jonathan Leavens
Consultant Landscape Architect
Jonathan Leavens is a highly experienced Conceptual Designer with a background in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. Born in East Africa and raised in Dorset, he studied Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art before beginning his career in private practice in Zimbabwe. He later returned to the UK to complete a qualification in Urban Design.
Our ethos
Forward-thinking design grounded in place
Joe Perkins Design is known for creating forward-thinking gardens and landscapes that are both beautiful and purposeful.
We design to the spirit of the place, responding to the architecture, the local landscape and the way people will experience and enjoy the space.
Connecting people with nature
Our goal is to connect people with nature. Every garden is designed for how it will be lived in and cared for, as well as how it looks and feels.
Collaboration with our clients is central to our process - understanding their needs, aspirations and priorities
helps us create gardens that feel personal, welcoming and enduring.
Attention to detail
Attention to detail runs through everything we do, from the first sketches to the final planting and beyond.
Our aim is to make gardens that sit comfortably in their
landscape, that grow and evolve beautifully over time, and that make a positive contribution to both people and the environment.
Designing with the future in mind
Our approach considers how gardens will adapt to the changing climate, supporting biodiversity and the ecosystems around them.
We plant for wildlife and pollinators, reuse materials from the site wherever possible, and favour local sources to reduce waste and environmental impact.
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We knew practically nothing about garden design when we first approached Joe and his team, who were amazing from the start. We said that the gardens we most liked were the Alhambra in Granada, Jim Thompson's garden in Bangkok and a traditional English country garden. Joe's team really listen to what you say and work incredibly hard to ensure that the end result reflects those discussions. Somehow the feel of all three of those diverse gardens in a very constrained and difficult site were incorporated... and the garden we have is a wonder - and we feel very lucky to be surrounded by it.
Residential 'Urban Terrace' client
Our work with Joe Perkins has been a great experience for the whole team - they bring their design training with a real grounding in practical solutions for our horticulturalists and I have no hesitation in recommending him and his work.
David Richardson, Horticulture Commonwealth War Graves
Having worked with a variety of garden designers throughout my career, Joe Perkins have been by far the most inspiring, supportive and in tune with not only the client needs and objectives, but also what is appropriate for a garden of this standing. Joe and his team have deeply connected with us as the client and have taken time to truly understand us, our opportunities but also our challenges.
Pippa Reece FLI, National Trust Sheffield Park and Garden