About Emily

With a history of floristry in the family, Emily has always been inspired by horticulture and the joy of spending time outdoors.

When lockdown hit, we all spent a lot more time at home. For Emily, this sparked a new chapter, starting in landscaping and eventually transforming her own garden in East Yorkshire, which led to a career in professional garden design.

Since launching the studio in January 2023, Emily’s work has flourished across East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. Most clients come to Emily and her team after discovering their previous projects, attracted by their distinctive style and thoughtful approach to garden design. Emily is rapidly becoming a recognised name in the industry, establishing herself as a sought-after garden designer across the UK..

We are members of the Association of Professional Landscapers, TrustMark, and the Horticultural Trades Association, 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 proved especially popular with clients looking to soften existing hard landscaping with beautifully designed planting. This service is delivered in-house by our dedicated soft landscaping team, ensuring a seamless process from concept to completion.

While most of our clients are homeowners and private individuals, we also collaborate with architects, developers, and landscapers on a range of projects. From day one, our goal has been to build a studio that is open, approachable, and supportive of others.

Now in 2025, Emily and the team are excited to be working on an inspiring range of projects across East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and further afield and we would be delighted to hear from you too.

Testimonials (Houzz and Google)

MARK AND LORETTA

Choosing Emily to design our garden was one of our best decisions ever. From the outset Emily listened attentively to our brief and came up with some great creative suggestions which reflected exactly what we had hoped our garden would look like.

Emily is not only a super talented garden designer, but she is also charming to work with and made the process of designing our garden a very enjoyable experience. We spend every minute we can in the garden and are so looking forward to seeing it mature – it’s surpassed our wildest dreams!

LUCY

We asked Emily for something that was quite unusual and she certainly came up with the goods! From start to finish, all at Emily Joy Garden Design were responsive, helpful, friendly and polite.

Communication and customer care were great. Emily was always available to answer questions and always delivered what she promised.

karen AND MARK

Be warned!! This girl can read minds and really is a complete JOY to work with!

We approached Emily earlier this year for help & guidance in transforming our Beverley new build, blank canvas & boring rear garden. We immediately felt at ease with her & the only real brief we could give her was that we’d like the space to remind us of a home we owned in abroad.

We’d had chats about how that could look between us & so when Em came up with very similar ideas we were a bit blown away & it was a very easy yes to signing up with her. What followed was a very seamless process, fantastic communication & assurance at every stage.

salt architects ltd

Despite tight timescales she met with us, understood and improved the brief and delivered a garden design which met our ambition and exceeded our aspiration.

We have since recommended Emily to other clients and are confident she will bring benefit to any client who uses her services.

JULIE

I recently contacted Emily to help with our front garden design and in particular give us ideas for how to address an ugly concrete panel under our picture window.

Emily created a moodboard and one of the ideas was an image that used corten steel to create a frame, this idea developed to create gates & bin screen, she then came up with a planting area in front on the house, so it was softened and we worked collaboratively and gave me lots of good advice and then the planting was over to her team.

Every day I get the joy out of looking at what is coming through and watching it grow and also watching the corten change colour too. I highly recommend Emily - she tuned into what we wanted and exceeded our expectation's, we now have a great template to work from for many years to come.