Garden Designers Association, Founded in 1981 for British garden designers, the Professional Association has been awarding gardeners awards for the past 12 years. They awarded the award last Friday night, and like in the past, this year’s pick celebrates the best garden and landscape designs in the UK and abroad.
Sarah Ebare Winner of the Garden of the Year Award for her Oxfordshire Project; Haruko Seki He won the Jury Award for Jewel Box on his private patio in London. (You can find the full list of winners here.) However, our eye-catching project was the winner of this year’s People’s Choice Award. This is the only award determined by the popular vote. It was given to gArden Designer Colm Joseph for Historic East Suffolk walled garden site.
Voters (a mix of public and garden design industry peers) were impressed by the clever modulation of the garden through three interconnected spaces and made comments about the beautiful transition between them. They also commented on the “cleverly treated planting” that will give you attention throughout the year, saying, “It’s definitely a garden you’ll want to live with.”
“It was a lovely surprise to receive the People’s Choice Award, and it was a great feeling to know that it took people to vote for it,” says Joseph. “I think people responded to planting-driven designs as well as a combination of modern and tradition, as well as modern, naturalistic planting designs that are found in an old Victorian walled garden. ”
Below, take a peek at crowd-pleasing designs.
Photography by photo Richard Bloom, Courtesy of Colm Joseph Gardens.
