The first garden designed by Jo at RHS Chelsea Flower Show – a sensory garden with gentle musical sounds created for Demelza Children’s Hospice. This small courtyard space includes a curving bench embraced by three simple but elegant Betula pendula Silver Birch trees. Gentle musical sounds introduced with a water harp and a Japanese sui-kin-kutsu (underground water chamber). Aluminium chimes in the flower beds give children the chance to make their own music.

Designed by Jo as a place for children, but also for their families and staff to simply ‘be’. The entire garden was relocated to the hospice after the show.

Ted Gladdish, chief executive of Demelza said: “We are so very grateful to Jo Thompson for designing this wonderful tribute to our charity. It is not only an inspiration to the children that we look after but a heart-warming way to celebrate the opening of our latest South East London hospice.”