Jo Thompson Landscape & Garden Design
Award-winning landscape design by one of the UK’s leading garden designers, creating naturalistic and romantic gardens that are exquisitely planted and sensitive to place.
Jo Thompson is one of the UK’s most celebrated garden designers, known for her romantic, painterly planting and instinctive sense of harmony. A multi–gold medal winner at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, she creates gardens that blend beauty, biodiversity and emotion, from wildflower meadows in the countryside to rooftop terraces in cities around the world. Widely regarded as a modern successor to Gertrude Jekyll, Jo’s work is defined by her love of roses and her belief in “a gentle intervention, rather than the heavy stamp of design.”
Consistently listed by House & Garden and Country Life among the UK’s leading garden designers, Jo has an international reputation for crafting sustainable, richly layered landscapes that stand the test of time. Her planting is soft, naturalistic and deeply romantic, allowing houses and gardens to settle comfortably into their surroundings. From wildflower meadows to borders abundant with roses and perennials, every landscape is designed to evolve gracefully with the seasons.
A trusted voice in historic landscapes, Jo has been invited to restore and advise on gardens originally designed by Humphry Repton, Vita Sackville-West, Percy Cane and Nathaniel Lloyd. She approaches each project with a deep sensitivity to history, place and atmosphere, always considering who and what has gone before, and who and what is yet to come.
Working across the UK and internationally – from Italy to New York – the studio designs family gardens, large country estates, courtyards and rooftop spaces, as well as public gardens and landscapes, responding to each site’s character and its surrounding architecture and setting.
Discover some of Jo’s projects, from private gardens and historic estates to public commissions.
“Much sought after for her romantic and exquisitely planted natural gardens”
House & Garden
“Jo Thompson’s blend of romantic English planting with a strong sense of respect for biodiversity must be the magic formula.”
Country & Town House
“Expert plantswoman Jo Thompson runs a leading architectural-garden design studio, known for creating gardens that are sensitive to their location and history, as well as intelligently planted”
Country Life
Latest Press
RHS Garden in Devon has unveiled its newly expanded Winter Garden, designed by Jo Thompson. Designed to come alive in
We’re delighted that our Historic Village Garden in Kent has been awarded a Gold Award in the Residential category at
We were delighted to see Jo featured as the Saturday Telegraph cover story, sharing her strategies for creating a sense
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