Colm Joseph’s 2025 SGD People’s Choice Award-Winning Walled Garden

The Society of Backyard Designers, knowledgeable affiliation based in 1981 for backyard designers within the U.Okay., has been handing out awards to gardeners for the previous twelve 12 years. They offered their awards final Friday night time, and as prior to now, this 12 months’s picks have fun the very best of backyard and panorama design within the U.Okay. and overseas.

Sarah Eberle gained the Backyard of the Yr Award for her Oxfordshire undertaking, and Haruko Seki secured the Judges’ Award for a jewel field of a personal patio in London. (You could find the total checklist of winners right here.) However the undertaking that caught our eye was the winner of this 12 months’s Individuals’s Alternative Award, which is the one award to be decided by public vote; it was given to garden designer Colm Joseph for a walled backyard in an historic East Suffolk website. 

Voters (a mixture of the general public and backyard design business friends) had been impressed by the skillful modulation of the backyard over three interconnecting areas and remarked on the attractive transitions between them. Additionally they commented on the “expertly dealt with planting” that gives curiosity all year long, saying it was “undoubtedly a backyard you’d need to dwell with.”

“It was a stunning shock to win the Individuals’s Alternative award and such an awesome feeling to know that folks took the time to vote for it,” Joseph tells us. “I feel individuals have responded to the planting-led design, in addition to the mix of recent and conventional, with the up to date, naturalistic planting design set inside an outdated Victorian walled backyard.”

Beneath, a peek on the crowd-pleasing design.

Pictures by Richard Bloom, courtesy of Colm Joseph Gardens.