It has been a busy year so far for garden designer Jo Thompson.
Her latest book, The New Romantic Garden , was published in February ; in May, she created the gold medal-winning The Glasshouse Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show , and now she has released an online course, The Fundamentals of Garden Design, with Create Academy.
While she has designed gardens all over the world, what unites them all is a love of planting – “I can’t bear the sight of a bare pergola,” she says – as well as a desire to make spaces that feel like they have always been there , and “create an atmosphere”.
Her own garden in Kent is no different. It’s small by country standards, as she lives in the middle of a village, so many of the ideas she applies to smaller projects are rules she lives by. Although she