Jo Thompson

Meet the designer of The Glasshouse Garden in the Show category at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025

Jo ThompsonJo Thompson

Jo Thompson has an international reputation for creating beautifully crafted and sustainable landscapes, with a commitment to biodiversity, exquisite and intelligent planting and an accomplished understanding of space and colour. Never ostentatious, her gardens are tasteful and eschew current fashions in favour of timeless classic and romantic spaces.
 

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Working across the UK and internationally from Italy to New York, Jo is considered one of the UK’s leading plantswomen. Her projects range from wildflower meadows and herbaceous borders to coastal gardens and rooftop terraces. She is also a lover and expert on roses, creating a series of ‘rose recipes’ for distinguished rose grower David Austin’s Handbook of RosesJo is Garden Advisor for RHS Garden Rosemoor and a member of the RHS Show Gardens Selection Panel, as well as an RHS Shows Judge. 

Jo says:
RHS Chelsea Flower Show is an international platform for world-class garden design. I am honoured to be working with The Glasshouse – a pioneering charity offering second chances through horticultural training to women in UK prisons – and embodying its message in The Glasshouse Garden at RHS Chelsea. The garden will have a transformational future as a permanent space dedicated to horticultural training and building self-belief, helping a new community of women to change outcomes and reduce re-offending.

“For years, I have been campaigning for everyone to have the right to access green space, so all the public gardens I create are really important to me. The Cool Garden and the Winter Garden at RHS Rosemoor, the garden at Royal British Legion Industries are just some examples. I have seen the positive effect that gardens and gardening have on individuals, as well as the impact of people coming together in public spaces. There is so much more to be done.”
 

RHS Chelsea

RHS Garden for Friendship in 2020
The Wedgwood Garden in 2019 – Silver-gilt
The Wedgwood Garden in 2018 – Gold
The Chelsea Barracks Garden in 2016 – Gold
The M&G Garden in 2015 – Silver-gilt
London Square in 2014 – Gold
The Caravan Club in 2012 – Silver-gilt
The Unexpected Gardener in 2010 – Gold & Best in Category
The Demelza Garden in 2009 – Silver-gilt

RHS Hampton Court

BBC Springwatch Garden in 2019 

RHS Chatsworth

Brewin Dolphin Garden in 2017 

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