Great Dixter Garden Designer

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Great dixter garden designer. Great dixter was the family home of gardener and gardening writer christopher lloyd it was the focus of his energy and enthusiasm and fuelled over 40 years of books and articles. The design and structure of the garden in christopher lloyd s words. Most of the garden design was by lutyens.

Lloyd lived his entire life in the manor which is as famous as the garden that surrounds it. Edwin lutyens was hired to renovate and extend the house and advise on the. Arts and crafts garden.

Now under the stewardship of fergus garrett and the great dixter charitable trust great dixter is an historic house a garden a centre of education and a place. On the day we visited bunches of rhubarb from the vegetable garden were arranged on the bench for sale. Dixter is managed today by the great dixter charitable trust and fergus garrett whom lloyd took on as head gardener in 1992.

Thus yew hedges are sometimes curved making a change from straight lines. Great dixter s garden in christopher lloyd s words. It always seems fluid never stodgy.

2021 please email catherine haydock education greatdixter co uk or phone 01797 334042 to register an interest in taking this course. Garden management managing a complex flower garden like great dixter. The two had a wonderfully creative working relationship being two people with a passion for plants and plant combinations and the transition to garrett s taking over after lloyd s death has appeared almost seamless.

Son of a well to do businessman turned country squire lloyd inherited a famous garden along with great dixter the 1450 s manor house in which at 84 he still lives. The room like structure of the garden is created with walls formal yew hedging and topiary which was nathaniel lloyd s passion christo s father all connected by flagstone pathways the hard landscaping is wonderful and shouldn t go unmentioned. Design and structure most of the garden design was by lutyens.