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Christopher Lloyd formed the Great Dixter Charitable Trust in 2004. Today Dixter inspires visitors with its exuberant and dynamic style of gardening. The surrounding estate with its meadows and ancient woodland are managed in the traditional manner to maximise biodiversity and sustainability.

Great Dixter represents a meeting of two worlds – the ornamental and the managed amongst the natural and the wild. Today, Fergus Garrett builds on Christopher Lloyd’s legacy by passing on the skills and knowledge required to future generations.

The garden, house and education programme cost the Trust over £1 million a year to run. Around £700,000 of this comes from visitor, nursery and event income but the remaining £300,000 has to be found from donations as the Trust receives no regular public subsidy.

Dixter relies on its Friends to help maintain its unique environment and support a horticultural training programme for gardeners of all ages and backgrounds.

Please help us to continue this work by becoming a Friend of Great Dixter or by exploring the options below. 

Donate

Donate

Great Dixter is run by an independent charitable trust and is funded by its own activities and donations. You can help by making a donation, becoming a Friend or leaving a bequest. Read more

Published: 1st January, 2021

Updated: 7th April, 2021

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Become a Friend

Become a Friend

Support the work of Great Dixter by becoming a Friend. Read more

Published: 2nd January, 2021

Updated: 7th April, 2021

Author: Catherine Haydock

Become a centenary Friend

Become a centenary Friend

For £1,000 you can treat yourself or someone else and at the same time help to secure Dixter’s future. Read more

Published: 4th January, 2021

Updated: 9th April, 2021

Author: Catherine Haydock

Centenary Fund

Centenary Fund

2021 the 100th anniversary of Christopher Lloyd’s birth coincides with the second year of the Covid pandemic. The Centenary Fund was set up to help mollify the inevitable implications of the shortage of income required to maintain the House and Gardens as well as the people and plants. Your donation will help to support us at this difficult time Read more

Published: 6th January, 2021

Updated: 9th April, 2021

Author: Catherine Haydock

Make a friend a Friend

Make a friend a Friend

Support Great Dixter by making a friend a Friend for £72 per annum. Read more

Published: 4th January, 2021

Updated: 9th April, 2021

Author: Catherine Haydock

US donations

US donations

Support Great Dixter from the United States and receive a tax deduction for your gift Read more

Published: 3rd January, 2021

Updated: 9th April, 2021

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Leave a legacy

Leave a legacy

The creation of a reserve fund to support running costs is key to our continued ability to train gardeners and maintain the innovative, intensive plantings and high standards of horticulture practiced in this important garden. By leaving a legacy or by making a gift in memory of a loved one, you are supporting our work. Read more

Published: 9th February, 2021

Updated: 9th April, 2021

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Culture Recovery Fund

Culture Recovery Fund

Great Dixter is one of 445 heritage organisations across the country set to receive an important financial boost from the government thanks to the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help them through the coronavirus pandemic. Read more

Published: 7th February, 2021

Updated: 9th April, 2021

Author: Catherine Haydock

About the Trust

About the Trust

Great Dixter was the family home of gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd. Great Dixter is an historic house, a garden, a centre of education, and a place of pilgrimage for horticulturists from across the world. Read more

Published: 8th February, 2021

Updated: 9th April, 2021

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    The garden, house and education programme cost the Trust over £1 million a year to run. Around £700,000 of this comes from visitor, nursery and event income but the remaining £300,000 has to be found from donations as the Trust receives no regular public subsidy.

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    Our course tutors are a mixture of experienced staff and people who have had a strong connection with Dixter over the years.

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  • Buy Tickets Online

    Buy Tickets Online

    Great Dixter Gardens is now open for exercise for local people. Please click here to book a ticket. Friends and Annual ticket holders do not need to book. From the 12th April 2021 travel outside your local area is permissible. The house itself will be closed until 17th May 2021.

  • Opening times

    Opening times

    The Garden at Great Dixter is now open to visitors. Friends and Annual Ticket holders do not need to book but we ask that other visitors book in advance. Gardens open 11am to 5pm. The house will remain closed until the 17th May 2021. We are closed on Mondays except on Bank Holidays.

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    Details about tickets

  • The Nursery

    The Nursery

    The Nursery was started by Christopher Lloyd in 1954, specialising in plants he deemed garden-worthy. We remain a small, personal and professional nursery. We are open to customers every day from 1st April from 9-5pm and Monday to Saturday lunchtime until the end of March, 9am-12:30, 1:30-4:30pm.

  • Visitor information

    Information for visitors on visiting the house, garden and nursery at Great Dixter

  • Become a Friend

    Become a Friend

    Support the work of Great Dixter by becoming a Friend.

  • Annual Ticket

    Annual Ticket

    If you are a frequent visitor to the garden, you may be interested in buying an Annual Ticket. These unlimited admission to the gardens, during our usual opening hours for one year and a 10% discount on plants in our Nursery(excludes mail order). These will be sent by first class post.

  • Cafe

    Cafe

    The Cafe will be closed until the 13th April. You are welcome to bring a picnic and use the picnic tables we have set up around the car park areas until this time.

  • How to find us

    Details of how to travel to Great Dixter

  • Dixter Tricks

    Dixter Tricks

    In 2020 in response to the Coronavirus pandemic Great Dixter launched a series of online lectures on Zoom. These are now all available to watch online on demand on Vimeo Fergus will look at a snapshot of the garden in September 2020 he will provide insight into his staking techniques as well as editing in the borders and how best to use a notebook.

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If you are a frequent visitor to the garden, you may be interested in buying an Annual Ticket.

These allow unlimited admission to the gardens, during our usual opening hours for one year and a 10% discount on plants in our Nursery(excludes mail order). Please choose from 1 person, 2 people or a Family ticket below. 

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These will be sent by first class post.