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

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

The new Melon Border in the Victorian walled garden at @water.lane 📷 @mariabellphoto . . . #plantingdesign #autumngarden #fallgarden #gardendesign #sustainablegardening #climateresilient #gardeningforwildlife #wildlife #nodig #walledgarden #gardenrestoration #gardenhistory

A seasonal Before/After of a Kent garden design - thank you @jasoningram for your beautiful photos . . . . . . #landscapearchitecture #gardendesigner #landscapearchitect #inspiration #plantingdesign #gardenlove #englishcountrygarden #englishcountrygardenstyle #rosegarden #inspiration #instagardens #countryhouse #britishhouse #houseandgarden #gardendesigns #autumngarden #fallgarden #inspirationalgardens #beforeafter

In my Substack newsletter The Gardening Mind, this week I have two tickets to give away for specialist flower grower and tulip expert Polly Nicholson’s @bayntunflowers talk about her latest book The Tulip Garden: Growing and Collecting Species, Rare and Annual Varieties on Tuesday 8th October. This wonderful event will take you on a journey to Blacklands, Polly’s beautiful, six-acre English country garden and offers an introduction to growing and collecting tulips alongside expert tips and advice for gardeners. Gravetye’s own Head Gardener Tom Coward will join the end of the talk for a Q&A with Polly. The giveaway includes coffee on arrival, a three-course lunch in Gravetye’s gorgeous glass-fronted Michelin starred dining room overlooking the gardens, and a signed copy of Polly’s book. @gravetyemanor To have a chance of winning these tickets, come and find me at The Gardening Mind - it’s easy to google and I’ll post the link in Stories - this is going to be a gorgeous day! Not an Ad! . . . . . . . #gravetyemanor #historicgardens #tulips

Where once there was just lawn and no privacy, this is now a garden for a family Thank you @yorelanddesign for building this special garden And thank you @jasoningram for the photography . . . . . . #gardendesign #familygarden #gardendesignsurrey #landscapedesign #landscapearchitecture #gardening #gardeninspiration

How did we get to the first image, the ‘After’, from the ‘Before’ - second image? The Gardening Mind has the full story 📷 @jasoningram @hollawaystudio . . . #thegardeningmind #gardendesign #cottagegarden #castlegarden #englishcountrygarden #historicgarden #smallgarden #smallgardendesign #smallgardenideas #howtogarden

A magical jewel of a garden steeped in history, starting to emerge from the ruins Architects: @hollawaystudio 📷 @jasoningram . . . #cottagegarden #smallgarden #smallgardenideas #historicgarden #gardenrenovation #gardendesign #gardenideas #smallgardenideas