Colm Joseph Gardens was featured in special edition of Gardens Illustrated magazine on designing small gardens, included as one of Gardens Illustrated's recommended designers for small gardens.
While we design gardens of all sizes, small gardens always present great opportunities to create striking designs that make the most of the space available. We are currently designing a number of exciting courtyard gardens in Cambridge and look forward to sharing images of them soon.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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