Behind the scenes of Jo Thompson's medal-winning Chelsea Flower Show garden

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This year's flower show season is well and truly upon us, and one of the highlights is, of course, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Multi-award winning garden designer and plants woman, Jo Thompson, describes her Chelsea show garden and the story behind it celebrating the transformative effect of second chances through horticulture. Hear Jo's experience of designing show gardens and how her innovative, diverse, compassionate, and romantic approach to garden design has helped her forge an inspiring career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's so funny because when you look at the guys, that's never a topic of conversation. Yeah. What you look like? Yeah. Did you watch the football last night? It's never about, I'll watch your skincare routine. Whereas women walk into a room and because we've been taught to be pitted against each other. Yeah. Not always, but sometimes there's, oh my God, you know, I can't. It's a bit of a barrier. Yeah, yeah. and it shouldn't be there.
0:01.1	We should be trying to change that stereotype. always, but sometimes there's, oh my God, you know, I can't. It's a bit of a barrier. Yeah, yeah, and it shouldn't be there.
0:22.6	We should be trying to change that stereotype,
0:24.6	believing that there is space for everybody.
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0:34.6	He could spend days on end trying to sell to a bunch of time wasters.
0:41.3	Or selling a flash and head to the fun fair with the kids.
0:45.3	Proper gutted.
0:48.3	Or proper impressed.
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0:59.4	Hello and welcome to the award-winning BBC Gardner's World magazine podcast, brought to you by the team here at the magazine.
1:07.6	Join us as we chat all things gardening with the nation's favourite experts.
1:15.3	This year's flower show season is well and truly upon us and one of the highlights is, of course, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
1:23.0	For this year's offering, multi-award winning garden designer and plantswoman, Joe Thompson, is back with the Glasshouse Garden celebrating the transformative effect of second chances through horticulture.
1:34.7	The garden is designed in collaboration with the Glass House, a program set up in 2020 to provide women in UK prisons with horticultural training, employment and resettlement as they approach the end of their sentence
1:46.9	and plan for a successful return to society.
1:50.6	After Chelsea, the garden will be relocated to a women's prison in the south of England.
1:55.9	Hello, I'm Sonia Patel Ellis at BBC Gardner's World magazine,
1:59.7	and I'm here today with Joe Thompson to talk about
2:02.8	her experience of designing show gardens and how her innovative, diverse, compassionate and romantic
2:09.1	approach to garden design has helped her forge such an inspiring career. Hi, Joe. Hi, Sonia. Thank you for
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