Emily Joy Garden Design

Emily Joy Garden Design Designing & planting gardens that you'll want to spend time in 🏡 🌸
Yorkshire & beyond. All enquiries: [email protected] or call 01482 765714
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With a history of floristry in the family, Emily has always been inspired by horticulture and spending time outdoors. Since starting the studio in January 2023, work has grown organically across East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. Most clients choose to work with Emily after seeing her previous work and are excited by her style and approach to designing gardens. Whilst the studio's main clientele

are homeowners and private individuals, we also collaborate with architects, developers, and landscapers on a range of services. We are members of the Association of Professional Landscapers, reassuring clients that we have been examined on the creative, technical and horticultural skills you would expect from a professional garden design studio. Our "one stop" approach to soft landscaping has also proved popular, suiting clients that want their existing hard landscaping to be softened and combined with appropriate, well designed planting. Emily and her team work on a range of exciting projects in East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and further afield and we would be delighted to hear from you too.

30/08/2026

Think the flowers are over? Think again! 🌸

Late summer is when some of my absolute favourites really start to go for it

🌻 Sunflowers
🌺 Dahlias
🌸 Cosmos
🌾 Cornflowers
🌿 Amaranth
🌱 Sedum
🪻 Verbena bonariensis
🌼 Oxeye daisies
🌹 Roses

And there’s plenty more still to come into their own, including rudbeckia, heleniums, echinacea, Japanese anemones, asters, persicaria and sanguisorba.

summer isn’t over yet!

In fact, some plants, cosmos and dahlias in particular actually love the cooler nights and shorter days of late summer. It can be the point where they really hit their stride

So don’t be too quick to write off your garden just because July has passed. Keep deadheading, keep watering when needed and enjoy that late summer abundance.

18/08/2026

Think late-summer colour means hot, fiery tones? Think again!🤍🌿

You don’t always have to reach for traditional late-summer colours

Here are a few of my favourite choices for bringing in whites and pale tones at this time of year:

🤍 Gaura ‘The Bride’ & ‘Whirling Butterflies’ - delicate and airy, they seem to drift through the borders.

🌿 Calamagrostis ‘Overdam’ - its lovely variegated leaves add real lightness late into summer, while bringing texture and structure that carries right through into winter.

🌼 Echinacea ‘White Swan - a trusty choice for late-summer colour. Tall stems, great structure and fabulous seedheads, with that beautiful white lightness.

And remember.. structure becomes really important in the garden at this time of year. Choose plants that not only look good now, but will continue to earn their place as the seasons change.

So, if you’re not a fan of the traditional hot late-summer palette, why not try whites and pale colours instead? 🤍

17/08/2026

There’s nothing more exciting as a garden designer than seeing the spades actually hit the ground and knowing that the vision is finally starting to come to life. 🌿

This new build started as a completely blank canvas, and the brief was all about bringing it to life with texture, colour and plenty of warmth, while keeping it practical and easy to maintain for this lovely couple.

We’ve brought in rich, warm tones, plenty of planting interest and even a little space for growing cut flowers, because what garden is complete without a few flowers to bring inside?

It’s been such a lovely project to design, with such a lovely brief and lovely clients, and seeing the renders become reality is always the best part.

The build is well underway now, with planting planned for the autumn. I can’t wait to see this one properly come to life. 🤎🌿

14/08/2026

Late summer is when the garden starts to turn up the heat in terms of colours 🌞

Yellow, orange and red might not be everyone’s favourite but these colours are so important for keeping the garden feeling alive and full of energy as we move through into early autumn.

These hotter shades bring a real vibrancy and that gorgeous late-summer glow , and the best part? Many of these plants absolutely thrive in warm, sunny conditions. A win for the garden and for us during these hot spells.

In this reel, I’m talking about three of my favourites for bringing those late-summer colours into the garden:

🌼 Echinaceas – beautiful daisy-like flowers, great for pollinators and fantastic for adding long-lasting colour.

Rudbeckias – those brilliant golden-yellow flowers scream late summer and will keep flowering for weeks.

Heleniums – fiery shades of yellow, orange and red that bring warmth and impact to a border.

And if you’re looking for a few more plants to embrace the hotter palette:

Crocosmia – vibrant flowers and gorgeous arching foliage
Achillea – warm flowerheads, structure and pollinator appeal
Dahlias – masses of colour and flowers well into autumn
Kniphofia – striking red, orange and yellow flower spikes 🔥

So perhaps late summer is the time to embrace the colours we might usually shy away from.

And remember when the garden needs a little extra energy, hot colours really do bring it to life. 🌞

What’s your favourite late-summer colour?

09/08/2026

If you’re looking to create that gorgeous pink haze in your garden towards the end of summer, these are some of the plants I’d go for… 🌸

First up is Muhlenbergia capillaris - and “haze” is the perfect word for it. It has this lovely frothy, soft pink texture that catches the light beautifully and gives you that really dreamy late-summer feel.

Then where would I be without my trusty girl Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’. A super reliable plant, the flowers start off pink and deepen as we move through autumn, and it keeps going right into winter. It’s really easy to propagate too, and I love it towards the front of a border.

And finally, Anemones. If you want to keep that pink going through late summer, these are a brilliant choice. I’d pair ‘Queen Charlotte’ with ‘September Charm’ - they bring so much colour into shadier spots and are brilliant for brightening up those darker corners of the garden.

And if you’re worried about anemones spreading, just grow them or sink them in to a pot

So… if a pink late-summer garden is your thing, I’d say these three are definitely worth a look 💕

Need a bit more colour in the garden right now? 🌿These are some of my favourite plants for late summer colour. They’re a...
08/08/2026

Need a bit more colour in the garden right now? 🌿

These are some of my favourite plants for late summer colour. They’re a mix of things I’ve been seeing look fab in our gardens and recent projects. Yes there are a few classics, but my absolute fav for 2026 is something you might recognise.. but might not have thought of!

From soft pastel type Scabiosa, to the elegant whites of Gaura, trusty old Sedum, and finally Origanum ‘Rosenkuppel’ (my fav) - aromatic, drought tolerant, with tiny purple flowers that look AMAZING at this time of year.

Which one is your favourite? What would you add to the list? 👇

07/08/2026

How do you actually want to use your garden? 🌿
Let me tell you a design secret

For me, my garden has to be somewhere I actually want to be. A place to switch off after a busy day, eat outside whenever I can, have friends over and just enjoy being in it.

I don’t think I ever feel more content than sitting in the garden with my girl gang, and now with our newest little addition joining us too 🤍 (my friends make delicious babies) Those are the moments that make me want to be in the garden and makes it worth what I’ve put in to it

One of the first things I ask my garden design clients, is how they want to use their garden. Not what style they like, or what materials they like, or favourite plants, but how they want to live in the space.

It sounds very simple.. but when I start a design I picture that family or that person actually in their new space having that perfect weekend, or evening, and work backwards from there. When I keep “how will you actually use this” in mind when making the hundreds of budget, material, layout, planting, or technical decisions during the transformation process, it helps everything else fall in to place.

My furniture definitely made this one of our comfiest girls’ nights in for a long time. 🌿

02/08/2026

I think alliums have a bit of an identity crisis…

Most people see them as a spring or early summer bulb, enjoy the flowers for a few weeks, then wonder when they should cut them down.

Not me.

The flowers are gorgeous, don’t get me wrong. They bring height, structure and some of the best colours in the garden, from clean whites and bright purples to those gorgeous deep, moody mauves.

But once the colour fades? That’s when I really start to appreciate them.

Those flower heads dry into the most incredible sculptural seed heads that add so much character to a border. I leave mine standing for as long as I can. They catch the light beautifully, look brilliant covered in frost, and most will happily earn their place all summer. Some even stick around all winter.

And yes… I pinch a few for the house too. They make amazing dried arrangements and always seem to reappear around Christmas. Sorry… I know it’s only August, but someone had to say the C word. 🎄😂

It’s a good reminder that flowers aren’t the only thing worth growing. Once you start noticing seed heads, bark, foliage and structure, your garden suddenly has so much more to offer for so much longer.

Who’s on team “leave the seed heads”, and who’s out there with the secateurs the minute the flowers fade? 🌿

01/08/2026

One of the biggest mistakes I see is treating every seating area in a garden as though it has to match perfectly.

Instead, I like to create gardens where each space has its own personality, while still feeling connected to the space “as a whole”.

A simple way to this is to repeat “elements” of the furniture, rather than repeating everything exactly.. eg.. Pick up colours from one area in another, echo materials, or choose pieces that have a similar feel. It creates flow and cohesion without everything matching 100%

In this garden, the Hoxton Dining Set works beautifully on the contemporary dining terrace, while the Stanley Rope Casual Dining Set creates a softer, more relaxed seating area. They’re very different in style but the colours, textures and proportions help the two spaces feel like they’re part of the same garden. 🤍

The result is a space that feels considered and is much more interesting than buying two sets that match exactly.

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