Marcus Barnett and Philip Nixon

Designer: Marcus Barnett and Philip Nixon

Inspiration for this silver-gilt flora garden is drawn from the rolling countryside of central southern England. It is a quietly modern garden with clean lines and simplicity of form.

Central pools in this garden are inspired by the idea of a river being a thread meandering through the countryside. The pools dissect the space echoing a river's journey cutting through the landscape and can be crossed via a bridge.

'The Savills Garden' has small low walls, which cut across the 'river' and through the planting. These walls create distinct but interconnecting areas in the garden along the course of the pools. This is inspired by the idea of the flow of a river from one pool to the next and the changing countryside.

'The Savills Garden' is geometrically elegant and seeks to create harmony and balance through a juxtaposition of repeating elements in both hard and soft landscaping with loose and relaxed planting evocative of that found in a natural and wild landscape.

This is the garden designers, Marcus Barnett and Philip Nixon, third time at Chelsea. In 2005 their chic garden was awarded a Gold and best in category and last year their first show garden for sponsor Savills was also awarded a Gold Medal.