British landscape designer Jo Thompson - The Gardener’s Palette

Color in the Garden with Jo Thompson and TERREMOTO

Date: April 1st

Time: 5:00pm-6:30pm

Location: Helen Crocker Russell Library at San Francisco Botanical Garden

Please RSVP for this event. Seating is limited.

Join British landscape designer Jo Thompson and landscape architecture design studio TERREMOTO in conversation on the use of color in the garden, garden design, and choosing plants for your Bay Area garden.

Jo Thompson’s beautiful new book, The Gardener’s Palette, published in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society, shares an entirely new way for home gardeners to confidently incorporate color at home. Working with the RHS color charts and using them almost as paint swatches, Jo Thompson offers 100 evocative and fresh palettes, pairs them with images of her own and other designers’ work, and breaks them down with charts showing the exact plants used.

Jo will be in conversation with Alain Peauroi from the San Francisco office of TERREMOTO, who will share the TERREMOTO vision of a garden, use of color, and recommend plants suitable for San Francisco gardens and landscapes.

About Our Speakers

Jo Thompson is one of the UK’s leading and best-known garden designers. She has won four Gold and five Silver Gilt medals at Chelsea Flower Show, and won the coveted People’s Choice Award at the first RHS Chatsworth Show. Jo’s current design projects include the regeneration of the historic walled gardens at Water Lane in Kent, the planting surrounding a 16th Century house in Sussex, a roof garden in Rome and a naturalistic garden in Connecticut; recent restoration projects include the planting strategy at Highgate Cemetery in London with Gustafson Porter + Bowman, and a secret garden in Venice.

TERREMOTO is a landscape architecture design studio with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California.  TERREMOTO creates well built, site-specific landscapes that respond to client needs while simultaneously challenging historical + contemporary landscape construction methods, materials, and formal conventions.