About Jo Thompson Landscape & Garden Design
Jo Thompson is one of the UK’s most celebrated garden designers and plantswomen. Known for creating private and public gardens that are intelligently planted and sensitive to their surroundings, her designs exude romance and imaginative colour combinations.
Consistently listed by House and Garden and Country Life magazines as one of the country’s top garden designers, Jo has also been named as one of the six best garden designers by The Times newspaper. Jo has been the recipient of four Gold and five Silver Gilt medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, In 2017 Jo won the People’s Choice award at the first RHS Chatsworth Flower Show.
Jo Thompson
Much of Jo’s childhood was spent in Italy, firstly in Rome, then as a student in Venice, followed by long summers at the family’s Tuscan home nestled in the Sienese hills. The architecture and art of Italy inspires much of her work and her exquisite planting has led her to be considered one of the UK’s leading plantswomen. Current projects include the regeneration of the walled gardens at Water Lane in Kent, the planting surrounding a 16th Century house in Sussex, a roof garden in Rome, the new Winter Garden at RHS Rosemoor and a naturalistic garden in Connecticut. She is also working with Gustafson Porter + Bowman on the restoration of Highgate Cemetery in London.
Jo speaks both nationally and internationally, she is a Fellow of the Landscape Institute, a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers and a Trustee of Bankside Open Spaces Trust. Jo is a member of the RHS Gardens Committee and Garden Advisor for RHS Rosemoor, an RHS judge, as well as being a member of the RHS Show Gardens Selection Panel. She is a visiting tutor at the London College of Garden Design.
The team
We are a team of landscape architects, garden designers and architects, all of whom are horticultural experts, bringing their skills and commitment to every project. We are a small and happy studio, bursting with creativity and expertise.
The team
We are a team of landscape architects, garden designers and architects, all of whom are horticultural experts, bringing their skills and commitment to every project. We are a small and happy studio, bursting with creativity and expertise.
