Jo Thompson Landscape & Garden Design

A very exciting announcement 💚 Jo’s new book is published in February. We can’t wait to share more, and in the meantime, you can find out about it in The Gardening Mind, the online digital gardening magazine on Substack. @rizzolibooks @substack . . . . . . . . . . #gardening #gardendesign #gardens #gardendesigner #howtogarden #gardenbooks #gardenlife #gardentalks #thenewromanticgarden #romanticgarden #newromanticgarden @raewarne

🌱 It’s time to start talking about Chelsea 🌱 💚 With just three weeks to go until we start building @theglasshousebotanics garden for this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, it’s time to start sharing with you the plans for this garden. Before I do, please have a look at what The Glasshouse do. R’s story is just one example of the work this EXTRAORDINARY social enterprise does. I’ll be telling some stories here and in The Gardening Mind, where you can find far more detail about the garden and what’s in store. 💚 When I first spoke to the founders of The Glasshouse about a possible garden for Chelsea, I made some notes and rough plans. I then went to meet the women, including R, for the very first time - if I tell you that straight after that meeting, I went home, tore up those initial drawings, and sat until 4am creating a new garden based on what I’d learned, that might give you a glimpse into just how important this garden is to me. It truly is a garden for the women I’ve been working with for nearly eighteen months now - I listened to them, and created a garden for them. 💚 There’s so much about this garden, and these people’s stories that I want to share with you all, and it’s heading your way I’d love it if you’d come along on the garden’s journey 🌱💚🌱 @project.giving.back @the_rhs @jothompson.studio #rhschelsea #rhschelseaflowershow #chelseaflowershow #secondchances #strongbeauty

Thank you once again @houseandgardenuk for including @jothompson.studio in your list. I can’t tell you how much this means to the whole team 🙏 It’s a busy old year, with current projects being built and planted in the UK, Europe, US and Brazil, my new book, and of course the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden for @theglasshousebotanics , as well as some other exciting projects which you’ll always hear about first in The Gardening Mind. Thank you @hattabyng @clarefostergardens as ever, for your support 💚🌱

Thank you very much to @spearsmagazine for listing us again in your Top Landscape Designers - we are delighted!

We’re delighted to have been asked to create the gardens for new student accommodation at @corpuscambridge The key goals for the space included building a sense of connection between the existing building and the new one, creating areas for students to enjoy being in nature and to have a break from studies, to retain some wilder areas around the property for wildlife, and to create new planted areas. As ever, we’re working with what is already there, a gentle intervention into what will feel like the woodland glade that the existing trees suggested. The proposed design makes maximum use of the space, with curved lawn areas, wildflower and bulb meadows, a wildlife walk, glades filled with woodland bulbs, meandering pathways and multiple seating options for studying, relaxing and socialising.

Repost• @houseandgardenuk Behind the intriguing creeper-clad façade of this west London house is the most wonderful secret garden. Originally, two cottages knocked into one, the 18th-century house was once owned by architect and furniture designer Charles Spooner. He was a devotee of William Morris, who, along with many other artists and designers of the time, also lived in Chiswick. Follow the link in our profile to tour the Arts and Crafts garden on the river revitalised by @jothompsongarden . Photo by @jasoningram Words by @clarefostergardens Design by @jothompsongarden

The New Romantic Garden is published next month - thank you to everyone who has preordered their copy 💚 You can find more words, and an upcoming preview in The Gardening Mind @jasoningram @rizzolibooks @rizzolibooksuk

We are delighted to introduce award-winning designer Jo Thompson as the designer of The Glasshouse Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025. 🌸 The garden is an immersive space centred around a translucent elliptical pavilion emerging from the foliage. Informed by conversations with women who have been through the programme, the garden Jo will create is full of sensory delights including jewel-like colours, fragrant plants and the sound of water. A narrow rill winds its way through the space connecting different areas and ending in a tranquil pool. The planting is rich and full of texture, and includes beautiful river birch trees, ferns, grasses and roses. @jothompsongarden , we are so excited to see your vision come to life! #projectgivingback #gardensforgoodcauses #jothompson #jothompsongarden #rhschelsea #rhschelseaflowershow #gardendesign

Stay tuned over the next few weeks, as we’ll be introducing our funded gardens for 2025! 🌿 Designed by @jothompsongarden , the Glasshouse Garden celebrates the transformative effect of second chances through horticulture. It embodies the sense of purpose, self-belief and hope that @theglasshousebotanics programme offers to women as they approach the end of their prison sentences. The Glasshouse is a social enterprise offering second chances to women prisoners reaching the end of their prison sentence. Its mission is to reduce reoffending through horticultural training and employment. After @the_rhs Chelsea Flower Show 2025, the garden will be rehomed to a women’s prison in the South East of England. 💚 Make sure your post notifications are on for @project.giving.back , as we’ll be sharing a few words from @jothompsongarden tomorrow - don’t miss it! 🎬🫶 #ProjectGivingBack #gardensforgoodcauses #rhschelseaflowershow #rhschelsea #gardendesign

First frosts show the importance of winter architecture Thank you @jasoningram for this beautiful image

We are always looking to see how much of garden we can retain: here at @rhsrosemoor in Devon, UK, the existing Winter Garden had potential but had become stuffed with bits and bobs over the years. Look carefully at the ‘before’ 2023 photo and you can see some little mini water features and stone garden features, a pair of random yews which were doing nothing apart from signify some kind of entrance where there was no entrance - in fact nothing really made sense. We don’t believe in ripping out everything. The heavy stamp of design is not for us. Instead, with a gentle intervention, the ugly hardscape has been taken out and replaced with a series of winding paths that will entice you in and lead you round the garden. Plants have been removed and are sitting on the nursery waiting go back in to new places in this same garden. In the most recent photo showing what’s happened so far, you can just spot the layout of the new planting beds - watch this space… . . . . . . . . @the_rhs #gardendesign #publicspace @visitdevon #landscapearchitecture #wintergarden #wintergardening #gardensforall #seasonalgardening #winterstructure #landscaping #handdrawn #handdrawing #visualisation

I’m delighted to announce that @jothompson.studio will be creating a garden at the #rhschelseaflowershow 2025 for The Glasshouse, a social enterprise providing second chances through horticulture to women based in UK prison, to create a garden celebrating the support, inspiration and hope they provide to women in custody. Funded by Project Giving Back, the garden is inspired by conversations with women supported by The Glasshouse programme, and will be centred around a translucent pavilion designed by @hollawaystudio emerging from the foliage. The Glasshouse provides horticultural training and employment to women in prison alongside resettlement support as they approach the end of their sentence. The programme has a zero percent re-offending rate, showing how building purpose, self-belief and hope for the future can break the cycle of re-offending. Following the show, the garden will be re-built in a women’s prison in the South of England where it will provide a nurturing space for training and planning second chances for a new community of women. For more details of the garden, and for the story behind the garden, head to The Gardening Mind in Substack, where the story of the garden and its development will unfold over the next few months. @project.giving.back @theglasshousebotanics #gardensforgoodcauses #projectgivingback #allaboutplants #rhschelsea #thegardeningmind #jothompsongardendesign @the_rhs @ryanalexanderassociates