Returning to Great Dixter - September, 2016
I had visited Great Dixter in May, 2011, (see separate album):
www.flickr.com/photos/ugardener/albums/72157626691413461
We returned for the day in September, 2016, taking one of the frequent buses from Rye. It was gratifying to see that its current custodian, Fergus Garrett, who took over when Christopher Lloyd died in 2006, continues to innovate and improve the gardens and nursery, and to keep up the high standards of the plantings. while conducting numerous workshops and training a crop of new interns and students fro all over the world each year.
"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. 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 of pilgrimage for horticulturists from across the world.
Great Dixter is made up of three houses, one built here in the mid-15th century with slightly later additions, the second a yeoman’s house from Benenden, across the border in Kent, built in the early 16th century and moved here in 1910, and the third combines the two with additional accommodation, completed in 1912. The medieval part of the house (Great Hall, Palour and Solar) is open to visitors from 2pm to 5pm during normal opening times. A guide is on hand in each room to explain the house’s history and answer questions."
www.greatdixter.co.uk/garden/garden-tour/
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Returning to Great Dixter - September, 2016
I had visited Great Dixter in May, 2011, (see separate album):
www.flickr.com/photos/ugardener/albums/72157626691413461
We returned for the day in September, 2016, taking one of the frequent buses from Rye. It was gratifying to see that its current custodian, Fergus Garrett, who took over when Christopher Lloyd died in 2006, continues to innovate and improve the gardens and nursery, and to keep up the high standards of the plantings. while conducting numerous workshops and training a crop of new interns and students fro all over the world each year.
"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. 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 of pilgrimage for horticulturists from across the world.
Great Dixter is made up of three houses, one built here in the mid-15th century with slightly later additions, the second a yeoman’s house from Benenden, across the border in Kent, built in the early 16th century and moved here in 1910, and the third combines the two with additional accommodation, completed in 1912. The medieval part of the house (Great Hall, Palour and Solar) is open to visitors from 2pm to 5pm during normal opening times. A guide is on hand in each room to explain the house’s history and answer questions."
www.greatdixter.co.uk/garden/garden-tour/
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