Timeless landscapes
Jo Thompson Landscape & Garden Design have established a worldwide reputation as trusted advisors and creative partners to private and commercial clients. Our mission is to create beautiful and sustainable landscapes for the client, the land, and the future.
Projects range from rooftop terraces to family gardens large and small, to country estates and heritage landscapes, and public parks and landscapes for schools, hospitals and care homes, as well as gold medal-winning show gardens.
About Jo Thompson Landscape & Garden Design
Jo uses her understanding of place to ensure that the landscapes demonstrate a true sensitivity to the garden’s location and history.
We aim to create the most beautiful outside spaces, with an intelligent approach, and with biodiversity and sustainability as our watchwords as we consider every detail necessary to create landscapes appropriate to their setting, deserving to exist and looking completely in place. Whatever the scale and scope of the project, our intention is create a landscape that will stand the rest of time, with every garden as unique as its setting.
This is just one of the reasons why we have been engaged to restore, advise on and gently intervene into landscapes and gardens originally designed by, amongst others, Humphry Repton, Vita Sackville-West, Percy Cane and Nathaniel Lloyd. A consideration of who and what has gone before, and who and what is yet to come, is at the heart of every design.
Similarly, working with sensitive rural developments within Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty we work with planning consultants and researchers to ensure the feasibility and integrity of the project.
A commitment to biodiversity, exquisite and appropriate planting, habitat conservation, the cultivation of plants, microclimates and an intelligent understanding of space, are all integral to the most appropriate design for a garden or landscape. In our view, no project and thus no garden, is ever the same.
Jo and our team of landscape architects, garden designers, horticultural consultants, ecologists, alongside architects, historians, artisans and craftsmen, collaborate to ensure the creation of unique and memorable spaces.
Planting is soft, relaxed in manner and painterly in style, allowing houses to settle into their space whilst Nature in turn settles in all around. From wildflower meadows to herbaceous borders planted with roses and perennials, to coastal garden grasses and wind-resistant rooftop trees, the picture changes with the seasons.
We provide a complete landscape design service, and we take a real pleasure in every stage of the process. From the initial consultation, concept and master-planning through planning and tender, to project consultancy and construction, we guide the client through all the steps necessary to implement the design and to bring into reality the vision of the space.
When required, we are able to provide ongoing advice from our horticultural consultants upon completion of the project. We enjoy excellent collaborative relationships with existing gardeners and can recommend gardeners for new spaces in order to ensure the success and maintenance of the garden as it develops over time.
Jo Thompson Landscape & Garden Design has professional indemnity insurance cover and adheres to the Code of Conduct of the Landscape Institute, the Royal Chartered body for UK Landscape Architects.
Latest press coverage
Gardens Feature, The Telegraph
Jo shares her experience on helping clients downsize their gardens whilst retaining the beauty and
Jo Thompson’s London water garden is featured in Villegiardini magazine
The Water Garden features in November’s edition of Villegiardini – one of Italy’s leading lifestyle
The Times: how the UK’s most famous garden designers are responding to climate change.
The Times heralds Jo Thompson’s design for the Cool Garden at RHS Rosemoor as a
Nominated as leading garden design practice by House & Garden
We are very pleased to feature again in House & Garden’s Top 50 Garden Designers.