Great Dixter, East Sussex (68) Sisley Garden Tours


Great Dixter Garden

Great Dixter's Long Border is a mixed planting of trees, flowers, ferns, climbers, grasses, shrubs and bulbs against a backdrop of box and yew. Andy Haslam for The New York Times


Great British Gardens Great Dixter in Sussex A Quintessential English Style Garden

House and garden. 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.


English Gardens Great Dixter Christopher Lloyd

Great Dixter Garden. A Tudor house with a rightly famous twentieth century Arts and Crafts garden. Great Dixter was bought in 1910 by Nathaniel Lloyd, author of books on brickwork and topiary, and was restored by Edwin Lutyens. Nathaniel designed the framework of the garden and it was planted with great flair by his son, Christopher Lloyd.


Tips and Inspiration from England’s Great Dixter Gardens The Craftsmanship Initiative

"Have you been to Great Dixter?" is the question on the lips of anyone debriefing a gardening friend who has been traveling in England. Great Dixter has a reputation for being one of the most talked about of British gardens, and certainly the one that has acquired the highest reputation amongst overseas visitors.


Rambling towards an exotic garden paradise Great Dixter in June

Opening times The House and Gardens are now closed and will re-open on Tuesday 26 March 2024. The Nursery remains open as follows: Monday to Friday 9.30am-12.30pm and 1.30pm -4.30pm; Saturday 9.30am - 12.30pm; closed on Sunday. Read more


BBC Four British Gardens in Time, Great Dixter

Great Dixter is an historic house, a garden, a centre of education, and a place of pilgrimage for horticulturists from across the world. It features Christopher Lloyd's renowned garden built around a 15th century house extended by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Great Dixter House and Gardens history


Tips and Inspiration from England’s Great Dixter Gardens Craftsmanship Magazine

Dominique Browning, ex-editor of House and Garden magazine, wrote of her 2011 symposium at Great Dixter, "To spend a week gardening there is to enter a magical dimension in a nurturing place, grounded in rich legacy, enthralling beauty, and the bright companionability of growing flowers and sharing them with the world. Dixter is a place that.


Great Dixter, East Sussex; an iconic 20th Century British garden National Garden Scheme

Great Dixter, a 112-year-old, six-acre garden located 60 miles southeast of London, has been called England's most dynamic, exciting, and beautiful garden. Its CEO and head gardener, Fergus Garrett, is widely considered one of the finest garden-makers in the world.


Great Dixter, East Sussex (8) Sisley Garden Tours

Great Dixter House & Gardens Christopher Lloyd's mesmerising garden built around a fifteenth century house extended by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Northiam, near Rye, East Sussex, TN31 6PH Get Directions Visit Accessible loos Cafe / restaurant Free parking Mostly wheelchair accessible Picnic area Shop


Stunning photo of Great Dixter. Source Great Dixter House and Gardens. Reading at home

Jungleland: The Exotic Garden at Great Dixter. It's quite a statement on conventional English gardening to tear out a rose garden and replace it with exotics. In Christopher Lloyd's words, it was done as a way of bypassing rose replant disease but clearly, creating a jungle in East Sussex was going to be much more fun than pruning roses.


Great Dixter garden, Northiam, East Sussex, England, UK, GB Stock Photo Alamy

Great Dixter House and Gardens is in the village of Northiam, which lies in the Sussex Weald, 9 miles from Rye and 12 miles from Hastings. Great Dixter is approximately three quarters of a mile off of the A28, which runs through Northiam. Follow the brown tourist signs once in the village. Google Map.


Great Dixter House and Gardens Visit 1066 Country

A 20th century garden with a formal framework by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1911, with subsequent modifications and additions and continuous development of outstanding planting by Mr and Mrs Nathaniel Lloyd and Christopher Lloyd. Great Dixter lies c 0.5km west of the main A28 Tenterden to Hastings road, on the western edge of the village of Northiam.


Christopher Lloyd's Great Dixter garden a lasting legacy that just keeps on growing The Telegraph

Dixter is a lesson in the growing of cotoneaster: Its low, spreading black branches in winter perfectly complement the style of the house. Above: Without the distraction of the vibrant summer color so characteristic of Christopher Lloyd's planting style, the Arts and Crafts garden is able to take center stage in the winter months.


Great Dixter Gardens Christopher Lloyd's Mesmerising Sussex Garden Historic Houses

How Great Dixter astounded ecologists - Gardens Illustrated. The gardens at Great Dixter have always been wildlife friendly, but after an ecological survey, the team discovered just how biodiverse the garden is.


Great Dixter House & Gardens Rye East Sussex Things To Do In Sussex

To mark the centenary of Christopher Lloyd's birth we talk to the talented gardeners who are continuing his legacy of fearless gardening


Tips and Inspiration from England’s Great Dixter Gardens Craftsmanship Magazine

25th February- Buds, Fire medicinal mushrooms - at Great Dixter- 1:30-5:30pm. 23rd March- Shoots and tree water - at Great Dixter- 1:30-5:30pm. 28th April - Wild feast fermenting - at Great Dixter- 1:30-5:30pm. 26th May - Coastal foraging, Seaweed - at Pett Level beach- 5:00-8:00pm. £240.00 per place. Limited reduced cost bursary places.

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