Jo Thompson has been hailed by Country Living magazine as one of the eight 'pioneering women who have changed the face of gardening in the past 200 years'. She has won 11 RHS Chelsea Flower Show medals and
designed beautiful gardens, large and small, over a 30-year career. In Small Garden Design, she is on a mission to equip readers with the tools to design their own garden in any location - urban, country or suburban - even if
the space feels unworkably small. She explores all the key principles of successful garden design and shows you how to apply it to your own space, working with hard landscaping, skilful planting and wildlife-friendly choices. Award-winning garden photographer Jason Ingram provides inspirational imagery.

Jo Thompson is a garden designer and writer who has been working in the garden design world for 30 years. Highly regarded for her atmospheric gardens and use of colour, she is one of the world's leading plantswomen, listed by Country Living as one of the most inspirational women in horticulture in the last 200 years. She is a member of the RHS Gardens Committee and Garden Advisor for RHS Rosemoor, an RHS judge and a member of the RHS Show Gardens Selection Panel. She lectures widely, both nationally and internationally.

Jo has been listed as a Top Designer in House & Garden since 2011, and in Country Life. She has 11 RHS Chelsea Flower Show medals and will be exhibiting a show garden there in May 2025. In 2017, she won the People's Choice award at the first RHS Chatsworth Flower Show. Her previous books include The Gardener's Palette (Timber Press, July 2022) and The New Romantic Garden (Rizzoli, February 2025). The Gardening Mind online publication currently stands at no.3 in the Substack Design charts, with 15k subscribers across 149 countries and 50 US states. Jo has 70k Instagram followers.