Jo was honoured to be included in Garden’s Illustrated’s series ‘Horticultural Who’s Who’. She talks to Jodie Jones about her inspiration, her Italian background and how she sets about designing landscapes.

Photograph by Charlie Hopkinson.

Read the full article from Gardens Illustrated, May 2021, here.

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Plants that sport silvery foliage are essential in the garden for providing contrast, forming focal points and contributing to arresting planting combinations. Choose the right plants and the lustre will linger for longer. 

Read Jo’s article from The Garden Magazine Dec 2020 here

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A YEAR IN THE GARDEN – Justine Picardie describes the soothing ritual of catering for her plants’ needs – and explains how you can do the same this winter.

Read the full article from Town & Country, Winter 2020 here

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Eight Mulberry Square is a one-of-a-kind residence in the heart of Belgravia designed by architects Ben Pentreath and William Smalley.

Courtyard planted by Jo Thompson Landscape & Garden Design.

Read the full article on House & Garden here.

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Hairstylist Sam McKnight enlisted the help of his friend, the landscape designer Jo Thompson, to create a maximalist garden at his London house, filling its deep beds with layer upon layer of his favourite plants.

‘We’re at full capacity of planting; we can’t fit in any more,’ Sam McKnight observes as I tour his London garden with his friend and garden mentor Jo Thompson. ‘I recently said to my gardener that we might make the borders bigger and I could see him churning inside.’ The image of Martin the gardener, with four hours a week to keep the lid on Sam’s proliferating borders, is never far from the conversation. He is not the only one who lacks time. Hair-stylist Sam has recently launched a range of hair products, adding retail clout to his amazing longevity as Vogue’s safest pair of hands on photo shoots. His career was celebrated in a major exhibition at Somerset House that opened last year. Jo and Sam have been friends since she was introduced to him at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show five years ago.

Read the full article on House & Garden magazine

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The comfortable home was expertly designed into a relatively awkwardly shaped, triangular plan; yet this doesn’t stop it from having generous, open plan living spaces, as well as ample outdoors areas, including planted gardens, patios and terrace space. Everything is concealed behind a gated courtyard entrance.’ (Wallpaper*Magazine, 2020)

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A Y EAR IN THE GARDEN – Justine Picardie reflects on how horticulture has taught her forbearance and acceptance, offering her a grounding calm in these difficult times.

Read the full article from Town & Country, Summer 2020 here

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The garden designer talks Chelsea and Show Gardens over Skype in a short film for Gardens Illustrated magazine

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Taking place all of this week, the institution’s gardeners, experts and charming displays have been showcased on the Chelsea Flower Show website and its social channels, bringing us a much needed dose of colour, but also inspiring us to get out there into our own gardens, balconies or simply urging us to grow some of our own on the windowsill.

We spoke to Jo Thompson, leading landscape and garden designer and former RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold-medallist, to find out her tips on how to plan, design and plant out your own garden.

Now’s the time to get green fingered…

Read the full article on The Handbook

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Chelsea Barracks has already established itself as one of the most desirable places to live in London. Its gardens, with their planting schemes, public artworks and open access, are adding to the city’s continuing and defining history of garden squares

Read the full article on LUX Magazine

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