Homes & Gardens: New Garden Designers – the freshest talent in horticulture

We showcase the upcoming individuals making their name in the world of garden design and highlight some of their game-changing projects

Image: Joe Perkins Design

Up-and-coming garden designers in 2020 are hot on everyone's lips. And it's no surprise thanks to our insatiable desire to have beautiful gardens. What's more the RHS and Society of Garden Designers are making sure-fire efforts to encourage and promote the young set of horticultural talent at their show gardens and awards. We headed to the green world of gardening to interview five garden designers you need to know...

1. Joe Perkins 

While studying English Literature 20 years ago, Joe Perkins worked in garden maintenance to make ends meet, and discovered he wanted a career creating gardens. After many years in landscape construction in London, Madrid and France, and working at firms like Hillier Landscapes and The Outdoor Room, he studied Residential Design at Oxford College of Garden Design before receiving his Masters in Landscape Architecture at Greenwich University. Having set up his own practice as a garden designer, his major highlight has been winning a Gold medal as well as the Best in Category and Best Construction Awards for his RHS Chelsea Facebook show garden in 2019.

'This garden, around a beautiful 17th-century farmhouse, was uninviting and exposed,' says Joe. 'To make it romantic and intimate, I created a series of rectangular beds filled with colorful flowers through the year, to create a pause between the terraces and the lawn. The challenge was to make a garden which didn’t fight with the character of the house, and had enough visual interest to add something to the property.'

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