Matthew Childs
About
A Surrey and Devon studio designing sustainable, usable gardens — including award-winning Chelsea show gardens.
Based in Surrey and Devon, Matthew Childs heads a small studio that makes gardens with a focus on sustainability and usability, guided by the ethos that gardens are for people. At RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024, the practice created an award-winning design for Terrence Higgins Trust. Recent projects include a Cambridge garden with a Japanese tea house, a London roof terrace and a private members' club in Puerto Rico. Sustainability is embedded as an organising principle rather than an add-on, shaping material choices, plant selection and drainage decisions from the earliest stages.
Matthew Childs
Projects
Terrence Higgins Trust Garden, RHS Chelsea 2024
An award-winning show garden for Terrence Higgins Trust at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024, using design to explore themes of health, community and the healing power of nature.
Garden with Japanese Tea House, Cambridge
A private residential garden in Cambridge centred on a bespoke Japanese tea house, where eastern garden philosophy is expressed through considered planting and refined material choices.
Find out more
Visit Matthew Childs’s website →@matthewchildsdesign