The Glasshouse Garden
Designed by Jo Thompson
RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2025
The planting is bold, textural, and deeply feminine, featuring river birch trees, ferns, grasses, and a variety of roses. The planting is rich and layered, with a tapestry of jewel-like colours and a variety of textures in both leaves and bark.
Jo Thompson
Jo Thompson is one of the UKβs most celebrated garden designers and plantswomen. Renowned for her exquisite planting and masterful use of colour, Jo is a multi-award-winning designer with 9 RHS Chelsea medals. Jo creates gardens around the world β from the UK and Europe to New York and Brazil.
Jo Thompson designed The Glasshouse Garden to celebrate the transformative power of second chances through horticulture. Inspired by the women of The Glasshouse, Jo has created a space filled with aspiration, hope and feminine strength.
The Glasshouse Garden reflects the sense of purpose, self-belief and hope offered by The Glasshouse, which provides horticulture training, employment and resettlement support to women in prison as they prepare for life beyond custody.
In approaching the design, Jo spent time meeting the women in The Glasshouse programme and was asked to bring a series of sensory features into the garden β the ability to see and hear water, to smell fragrant plants and to be inspired by natureβs beauty. Every detail of the garden responds to these requests with care and creativity.
βMy first meeting with the women of The Glasshouse was possibly one of the most thought-provoking days of my life. Whatever happened, I was going to pour my heart and soul into designing a garden for these women, a garden which would be for them as well as represent them. A garden that would encourage people to think about what second chances can mean β for the individual women but also for our society as a whole. We canβt expect outcomes to change if a woman does not have somewhere stable to live, returns to a violent relationship, or is unemployable through lack of training.β
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