Press and Awards

Joe and Laura, and Carey Garden Design Studio, have been featured in a number of gardening magazines and journals, as well as on television. Take a look at these features below.

If you would like to speak to Joe and Laura about a media enquiry, please get in touch.

  • RHS Small Garden of the Year

    RHS Small Garden of the Year - 2025

    Joe and Laura received the first ever ‘RHS Small Garden of the Year’ Award in 2025. The Addleshaw Goddard - Freedom to Flourish Garden picked up a total of 3 awards at the show. Click below to read more about the garden.

  • Best Construction Award - RHS Chelsea 2025

    Best Construction Award - RHS Chelsea 2025

    Joe & Laura’s winning garden also picked up the award for best construction. The amazing team at The Outdoor Room were behind the incredible build quality of this show garden. Foreman, Fraser, was just 22 years old - one of the youngest ever to lead a build at the show.

  • Joe and Laura Carey receiving Gold Medals in 2025 at RHS Chelsea

    RHS Chelsea 2025 - Gold Medal

    Joe & Laura scooped up another Gold Medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2025. The Addleshaw Goddard - Freedom to Flourish Garden was a Norfolk inspired garden all about slowing down.

  • Top 20 Garden Designers 2025

    Awarded by Country & Town House Magazine, for the second year running. Joe & Laura are listed in the Top 20, alongside the Top 50 Interior Designers for 2024 / 25.

  • Winner - House & Garden Design Awards

    Rising Star 2024 Winners, House & Garden Design Awards

    “At House & Garden, The Design Awards are our way of recognising leading figures. We are thrilled to reveal this year’s winners – people who are making their mark on the industry”

  • House & Garden Magazine Rising Stars Garden Designers Joe & Laura Carey

    25 Rising Stars

    House & Garden Magazine - Top emerging creative talent in the Garden Design scene.

  • RHS Gold Medal

    Gold Medalists at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
    All About Plants Show Garden - 2023.

  • BBC 1 with Monty Don

    “It looks incredible, you’ve achieved an amazing sense of poise - it really is wonderful”

  • RHS Best in Show

    The Talitha Arts Garden, Judged ‘Best in Show’ RHS Chelsea Flower Show: All About Plants 2023

  • Top 20 Garden Designers

    Featured in Country & Town House Magazine in the ‘Top 20 Finest Garden Designers’ for 2023 / 24.

  • BBC 2 Gardener's World

    Feature on our partnership with Katie’s Garden Plants in Suffolk, growing peat free for Chelsea.

  • The English Garden Magazine

    The English Garden

    Article on Laura’s plant trends and choices - April 2023.

  • SGD Garden Design Journal Magazine

    Garden Design Journal

    Designer profile - society of garden design magazine.

  • Horticulture Magazine

    Horticulture Magazine.

    A profile feature on Joe & Laura for Horticulture Magazine 2023/24

  • Coast Magazine

    Designer Profile - life as designers in North Norfolk.

  • BBC Gardeners' World Magazine

    GW Mag Front Cover

    June 2021
    Front Cover & Six Page feature

  • Music Video

    Andre Saxman Brown & Sally Potterton
    (Señorita - Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello)