Woodlands Enterprise Centre, Flimwell, East Sussex TN5 7PR
Jo Thompson is one of the UK’s leading garden designers, known for creating beautifully crafted landscapes of romance and atmosphere, intended to mature gracefully over time. Her work is defined by exquisite planting, distinctive colour harmonies and a masterful understanding of space and form.
Renowned for her expertise with roses, Jo favours what she calls 'a gentle intervention rather than the heavy stamp of design.' Her gardens respond sensitively to their surroundings and have earned her an international reputation as a thoughtful and accomplished landscape and garden designer.
Often described as a modern successor to Britain’s horticultural heroine Gertrude Jekyll, Jo works closely with each client to ensure that every garden reflects both its setting and the people who will enjoy it. Her approach is grounded in listening, careful attention to detail and an instinctive understanding of how planting can shape atmosphere and emotion.
A multi–Gold medal winner at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, she received Gold in 2025 for The Glasshouse Garden and has recently completed the Winter Garden at RHS Rosemoor. Current work includes Saling Hall in Essex, a 15th-century farmhouse in Kent and country house projects across Sussex and the South Downs.
“You shouldn’t look at one of my gardens and immediately know that I made it. It doesn’t need to look like it has always been there, but it should look like it could be there forever.”
Jo Thompson
Jo is a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers and the Landscape Institute, an RHS Shows Judge and Garden Advisor to RHS Rosemoor. She is the author of The New Romantic Garden. And The Gardener’s Palette.
Find out more at jothompson-garden-design.co.uk
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