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A perfect finish

MORE often than one might suppose, a garden begins with a chance encounter and so it was with the two gardens created from scratch for this Cotswold home. Standing in the queue for entry to the 2019 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the garden designer Marcus Barnett bumped into a current client who happened to be with friends who were in urgent need of help following some major building projects.

‘They had done a beautifully considered renovation on an annexed barn and had plans to develop a further smaller barn that had been situated a little way across from the main house, separated by an old farmyard,’ he recalls. The main house had also been substantially renovated with the

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