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February 2021

New design for a Cambridge courtyard garden

The design studio is keeping busy, despite the current coronavirus lockdown. Among other new projects underway is this design for a new courtyard garden in central Cambridge. Surrounded by award-winning modern architecture, this design creates a naturalistic and contemporary outdoor living space for family and friends to spend time together.

The view from inside the house is carefully considered and composed, making the most of indoor and outdoor living spaces all year-round. This visual composition is achieved while also delivering the functional requirements of open, flexible space within this small, family garden.

Colm Joseph Gardens New Cambridge Courtyard Garden

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December 2020
First winter for a new Suffolk garden.
One of our Suffolk gardens, planted earlier in 2020, is already demonstrating the value of planting design with winter structure and texture in mind.
Our design for this rural garden was light touch, with the introduction of generous planting, multi-stem trees (Amelanchier lamarckii), alongside a new dining terrace and paths in simple clay pavers.

Careful selection of perennials and ornamental grasses that offer winter seedheads and foliage, in a variety of forms and textures, really helps to extend seasonal interest in the garden.
26 October 2020
Suffolk town garden, designing for seasonal change
Like architecture, sculpture, or interior design, landscape design involves imagining and shaping three dimensional spaces. However, one of the unique joys and challenges is engaging with a fourth dimension: time. We embrace the opportunities this presents, both the passing of years and the changing of seasons, as shown in this summer-to-autumn transition in our Bury St Edmunds garden. Completed in July 2020, this garden will only improve in time.
Read more about this project here.
6 October 2020
Plant sourcing for Cambridgeshire garden
We've been busy sourcing plants for various upcoming gardens. Expansive sweeps of Molinia 'Heidebraut' (around 2,000 of them!) will be an important component of the perennial meadow planting in one of our Cambridgeshire gardens. This beautiful ornamental grass will be interplanted with a carefully selected mix of roses, perennials and spring bulbs to create a perennial meadow with year round interest.
Read more about this project here.
15 June 2020
Bury St Edmunds garden nears completion
Work has continued apace on this contemporary town garden in Bury St Edmunds, despite lockdown challenges. The design is a full overhaul of the existing garden with, among other things, 22 new trees, multiple specimen dwarf pines, and bespoke oversized limestone paving all helping to transform the space. The garden is taking shape, with the clients soon able to enjoy a first summer in their new garden.
Read more about the project here.
25 May 2020
Cambridge garden establishing well
Completed in autumn 2019, it’s great to see our contemporary garden for a new-build townhouse in Cambridge establishing so well in its first summer. The design creates an immersive, naturalistic space, bringing a little slice of Cambridgeshire countryside to the city.
Read more about the project here
10 February 2020
New Huntingdonshire project gets the go ahead
Planning permission has been approved for an exciting new project near Huntingdon. Colm Joseph Gardens will be developing a beautiful six-acre site, complete with its own lake. Our landscape design will be created around a new, contemporary family home designed by CaSA Architects.
Read more about the project here.
21 October 2019
Work underway on rural Cambridgeshire project
Colm Joseph Gardens has designed the garden around striking modern architecture by award-winning architects, shedkm. Set in historic countryside with views over the Fens, our landscape design will integrate architecture with landscape and blend modernity with heritage. Construction of the house is now underway with the garden build to start in 2020.
Read more about the project here.
18 July 2019
Colm Joseph features in the Evening Standard, showcasing rose meadow planting
Colm Joseph’s concept of a ‘rose meadow’ is an alternative way to use roses in the garden, emphasising their potential to offer longer seasonal interest and a sense of wildness. The Evening Standard’s Homes & Property feature explains some of the best roses, grasses and perennials to create your own rose meadow aesthetic, even in small city gardens.
Read the full article here.
27 June 2019
Velvet, the leading Suffolk + Cambridgeshire lifestyle magazine, profiles Colm Joseph
Velvet magazine’s editor Alice Ryan met Colm at Cambridge Botanic Gardens to find out more about his road into garden design, his success at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and what his plans are for the future.
Read the Velvet article here.
27 May 2019
House & Garden - Colm Joseph featured in ‘Trends from RHS Chelsea 2019’
House & Garden magazine describes Colm Joseph as a ‘designer to watch out for’ following his debut at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019.
Read the House & Gardens article here.
24 May 2019
Irish Independent - feature on Colm Joseph Gardens
Colm Joseph was the only Irish garden designer to present a garden at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Currently based on the border between Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, Colm was originally born in Belfast. The Irish Independent publishes a two-page feature on Colm Joseph and his journey from Belfast to garden design and RHS Chelsea 2019.
Read the Irish Independent article here.
19 May 2019
House Beautiful picks Colm Joseph Gardens as top trend setter
Colm Joseph’s design for decorative steel screens was picked out by House Beautiful Magazine as one of the top take-home garden trends of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019.
Read the House Beautiful article here.
17 May 2019
English Garden Magazine - RHS Chelsea Feature
The English Garden Magazine features Colm Joseph's Silver-Gilt winning RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019 garden. Colm has created his first Chelsea exhibit in the Great Pavilion, where The Perennial Lifeline Garden celebrates the 180-year anniversary of Perennial – a charity that helps horticulturists in times of need.
Read The English Garden article here.
15 May 2019
Colm Joseph’s RHS Chelsea garden praised by Country Life magazine
Country Life feature Colm Joseph’s RHS Chelsea debut garden, describing it as “one of the best exhibits at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show”.
Read Country Life’s online coverage of the garden here.
30 April 2019
Rose meadow for a Chelsea debut - EADT Suffolk Magazine
Colm Joseph’s rose meadow, which forms part of his RHS Chelsea 2019 garden, is featured in EADT Suffolk Magazine. Colm’s debut garden at Chelsea included a version of this rose meadow planting idea.
Read more about the project here.
18 March 2019
Garden Design Journal feature – RHS Chelsea 2019
Colm’s design for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019 has been featured in the Garden Design Journal. The ‘Perennial Lifeline Garden’ is a modern reimagining of a classical rose garden and colonnade. It will be located in the centre of the Great Pavilion and will be a walk-though garden, open for the public to explore.
Learn more about the RHS Chelsea Flower Show project here.
14 December 2018
Suffolk landscape garden design featured in the Garden Design journal
Our design for Field Barn, Suffolk - a modern country landscape garden in rural Suffolk - has been featured on the front cover of the January 2019 edition of the Garden Design Journal.
See more on this contemporary landscape garden design here.
3 December 2018
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019
We’re proud to announce our design for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019 - The Perennial Lifeline Garden. The design, a modern reimagining of a classical rose garden and colonnade, will be in the centre of the Great Pavilion as a walk-though garden, open for the public to explore.
The garden has been designed for horticultural charity, Perennial.
18 October 2018
Low maintenance planting ideas for a small garden
Colm Joseph Gardens is featured in the Evening Standard’s Homes & Property this week, offering exciting, low maintenance planting ideas for a small London garden.
Read the full article here.
11 October 2018
FINALIST - Society of Garden Designers Awards 2019
We’re delighted to learn that our design for Field Barn, Suffolk has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Society of Garden Designers Awards 2019. The design celebrates the beauty and history of the surrounding Suffolk landscape and the strikingly modern architecture of Field Barn.
Read more about this project here.

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More news...

First winter for a new Suffolk garden.

Suffolk town garden, designing for seasonal change

Plant sourcing for Cambridgeshire garden

Bury St Edmunds garden nears completion

Cambridge garden establishing well

New Huntingdonshire project gets the go ahead

Work underway on rural Cambridgeshire project

Colm Joseph features in the Evening Standard, showcasing rose meadow planting

Velvet, the leading Suffolk + Cambridgeshire lifestyle magazine, profiles Colm Joseph

House & Garden - Colm Joseph featured in ‘Trends from RHS Chelsea 2019’

Irish Independent - feature on Colm Joseph Gardens

House Beautiful picks Colm Joseph Gardens as top trend setter

English Garden Magazine - RHS Chelsea Feature

Colm Joseph’s RHS Chelsea garden praised by Country Life magazine

Rose meadow for a Chelsea debut - EADT Suffolk Magazine

Garden Design Journal feature – RHS Chelsea 2019

Suffolk landscape garden design featured in the Garden Design journal

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019

Low maintenance planting ideas for a small garden

FINALIST - Society of Garden Designers Awards 2019

Follow us and get in touch