The brief
Beauty, romance and, most importantly, fun were at the heart of the brief for this family garden in Wandsworth, southwest London. When the owners, who have small children, bought the property, they were faced with just a lawn surrounded by overgrown shrubs. “The garden is long for London, but you saw everything at once,” says garden designer Jo Thompson, whom they approached to transform the space. “There was no definition at all.”
Attracted to Jo’s romantic, slightly wild planting style and her insistence that gardens need to work for their owners, the clients tasked Jo with designing a beautiful space that would draw them outside and encourage them to use the whole of the
