Jo Thompson

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From her London and East Sussex studios, Jo Thompson and her landscape and garden design team work on a wide range of projects, including country estates, large family gardens, heritage landscapes and rooftop terraces. 

Thompson predominantly works across south-east England; however, she has also collaborated with clients in Italy, France and the US. She has won four Gold and five Silver-gilt medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

A visiting tutor at the London College of Garden Design, Thompson's latest book The New Romantic Garden, was published in 2025 and takes readers through thirty exquisite gardens designed to adapt traditional gardening methods to today's more ecologically based aesthetics. Her weekly newsletter on inspirational spaces and planting and garden design advice, The Gardening Mind, has more than 12,000 subscribers.