A three-time RHS Chelsea Gold Medal winner, Marcus Barnett established his London-based garden design studio 20 years ago with a philosophy rooted in ecology and a borderless dialogue between interior, garden and land. Their signature style embraces and reinforces "the spirit of a place."

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Here, we speak with Marcus and garden designer Amy Derby about the studio’s practice and how that philosophy came to life in the gardens of Nightjar, our contemporary, honey-stoned home in the Cotswolds. 

"From Nightjar you look straight out over the wider estate," says Amy. "It doesn’t feel like garden and then wild. It feels like one continuous space - which is, ultimately, what we are always reaching for.”