Run by Wife and Husband team Vic and Joe Wade from their base in Swansea in South Wales, Victoria Wade Landscape Architecture is a thriving Landscape Institute registered practice that has been creating incredible outside spaces since 2013.
Take a landscape architect student and an architecture student and a bottle or two and the rest is history…
Fast forward 7 years, a full complement of qualifications later, and Victoria Wade Landscape Architecture was born. Fifteen years of passion for design... the outdoors... and getting together has led to a unique partnership from which incredible, natural and highly liveable outdoor spaces are born...
Vic’s insatiable creativity meant it was inevitable that she would set up her own business and didn’t think twice about abandoning the conventional path after university. Joe cut his teeth in a range of commercial landscape architecture firms working on schools, hospitals and public realm. Vic could see pretty quickly he was a bit too good to be left to the competition so poached him into her landscape design business in 2015. Now there’s no stopping them. A formidable pair, with all that experience who love sharing what they know with the wider world.
BA Hons in Landscape Architecture with Town Planning, Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) and a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI).
BA Hons in Architecture, MA in Landscape Architecture.
The practice is a Registered Practice with the Landscape Institute.
Ever the life-long learners, Vic and Joe are endlessly committed to increasing their knowledge about those things they are passionate about bringing to their clients and their own garden. Ongoing professional development of all things design and planting over the years includes: ecological planting design, forest gardening, permaculture design, eco-building techniques, natural swimming pools, cut flowers, green roofs and living walls… the list goes on and the bookshelves continue to groan under the weight of Vic’s rather obsessive thirst for knowledge...
Their work has been featured in Gardens Illustrated, Homes and Gardens, Grand Designs, Country Homes and Interiors, The Guardian, House & Garden and Modern Garden and a number of online publications.
Vic and Joe’s own garden has been featured on BBC Gardener’s World (2023, episode 23) and on ITV’s Love Your Garden with Alan Titchmarsh in 2021 (series 11, episode 5).
In 2022 they designed a community garden in Wales for the RHS which featured on BBC’s The One Show.
They regularly collaborate with like-minded brands and are open to the right partnerships with companies as passionate as they are about getting people outside. Recent collaborations include Skargards wood fired hot tubs and Cox and Cox.
Because that’s the potential of your garden, a fun, beautiful, inspirational space where you can sit, potter, garden, entertain, play or relax…whilst doing your bit for nature on the way.
Nic Downs, Downs Merrifield Architects
