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  • Nursery propagation day

    Nursery propagation day

    The Great Dixter Nursery will host this day on propagation. You will be taken through each stage from making your own compost, to taking cuttings, sowing seeds, splitting perennials and looking after plants in pots. Read more

  • Meadow gardening study day

    Meadow gardening study day

    Discover the secrets of meadows using the wonderful Great Dixter meadows as a case study. The day takes place at the peak of orchid flowing time. Read more

  • Designing with plants study day

    Designing with plants study day

    This study day will teach you how to combine plants using colour, shape, texture, repetition and balance. Read more

  • Succession planting in the mixed border study day

    Succession planting in the mixed border study day

    Fergus will use the garden at Great Dixter to illustrate how you can create a long-season border using succession planting. Examining the garden in February gives you an opportunity to see the gaps within the borders and learn how to fill them. Read more

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Study days

Study Days are led by Head Gardener Fergus Garrett and held at Great Dixter House and Gardens. Developed by Christopher Lloyd and Fergus Garrett, this programme is in its twentieth year. Each Study Day includes a lecture in the house as well as talks and demonstrations in the garden. Subjects are tailored to provide insight into the Great Dixter ethos of gardening. Refreshments and lunch are provided and there is a 10% discount to attendees on plant sales in the nursery on the day. 

Succession planting in the mixed border study day

Succession planting in the mixed border study day

Fergus will use the garden at Great Dixter to illustrate how you can create a long-season border using succession planting. Examining the garden in February gives you an opportunity to see the gaps within the borders and learn how to fill them. Read more

Start: 26th February, 2024 at 10:00am

End: 26th February, 2024 at 4:00pm

Published: 19th October, 2023

Updated: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Catherine Haydock

Location: Great Dixter Charitable Trust, Northiam, Rye, TN31 6PH

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Nursery propagation day

Nursery propagation day

The Great Dixter Nursery will host this day on propagation. You will be taken through each stage from making your own compost, to taking cuttings, sowing seeds, splitting perennials and looking after plants in pots. Read more

Start: 18th March, 2024 at 10:00am

End: 18th March, 2024 at 4:00pm

Published: 8th November, 2023

Updated: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Catherine Haydock

Location: Great Dixter Charitable Trust, Northiam, Rye, TN31 6PH

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Designing with plants study day

Designing with plants study day

This study day will teach you how to combine plants using colour, shape, texture, repetition and balance. Read more

Start: 25th March, 2024 at 10:00am

End: 25th March, 2024 at 4:00pm

Published: 19th October, 2023

Updated: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Catherine Haydock

Location: Great Dixter Charitable Trust, Northiam, Rye, TN31 6PH

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Designing with plants study day

Designing with plants study day

This study day will teach you how to combine plants using colour, shape, texture, repetition and balance. Read more

Start: 29th April, 2024 at 10:00am

End: 29th April, 2024 at 4:00pm

Published: 19th October, 2023

Updated: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Catherine Haydock

Location: Great Dixter Charitable Trust, Northiam, Rye, TN31 6PH

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Meadow gardening study day

Meadow gardening study day

Discover the secrets of meadows using the wonderful Great Dixter meadows as a case study. The day takes place at the peak of orchid flowing time. Read more

Start: 3rd June, 2024 at 10:00am

End: 3rd June, 2024 at 4:00pm

Published: 19th October, 2023

Updated: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Catherine Haydock

Location: Great Dixter Charitable Trust, Northiam, Rye, TN31 6PH

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Meadow gardening study day

Meadow gardening study day

Discover the secrets of meadows using the amazing Great Dixter meadows as a case study. The day takes place at the time when the meadows are entering their late summer flowering phase, and will discuss the practicalities of cutting and strewing to create new meadows. Read more

Start: 8th July, 2024 at 10:00am

End: 8th July, 2024 at 4:00pm

Published: 19th October, 2023

Updated: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Catherine Haydock

Location: Great Dixter Charitable Trust, Northiam, Rye, TN31 6PH

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Gardening with subtropical plants study day

Gardening with subtropical plants study day

Gain an insight into how Fergus and the team use subtropical plants at Great Dixter to create a lush textured tropical effect. Read more

Start: 2nd September, 2024 at 10:00am

End: 2nd September, 2024 at 4:00pm

Published: 19th October, 2023

Updated: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Catherine Haydock

Location: Great Dixter Charitable Trust, Northiam, Rye, TN31 6PH

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Nursery propagation day

Nursery propagation day

The Great Dixter Nursery will host this day on propagation. You will be taken through each stage from making your own compost, to taking cuttings, sowing seeds, splitting perennials and looking after plants in pots. Read more

Start: 23rd September, 2024 at 10:00am

End: 23rd September, 2024 at 4:00pm

Published: 8th November, 2023

Updated: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Catherine Haydock

Location: Great Dixter Charitable Trust, Northiam, Rye, TN31 6PH

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Planning and preparing your borders for spring and summer study day

Planning and preparing your borders for spring and summer study day

This study day takes you through the preparation and planning involved in getting a complex garden like Great Dixter ready through the winter for spring and early summer display. Read more

Start: 14th October, 2024 at 10:00am

End: 14th October, 2024 at 4:00pm

Published: 26th October, 2023

Updated: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Catherine Haydock

Location: Great Dixter Charitable Trust, Northiam, Rye, TN31 6PH

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Succession planting in the mixed border study day

Succession planting in the mixed border study day

Fergus will use the garden at Great Dixter to illustrate how you can create a long-season border using succession planting. Read more

Start: 18th November, 2024 at 10:00am

End: 18th November, 2024 at 4:00pm

Published: 26th October, 2023

Updated: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Catherine Haydock

Location: Great Dixter Charitable Trust, Northiam, Rye, TN31 6PH

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  • Layered Planting: an intensive 5-part online Symposium

    Layered Planting: an intensive 5-part online Symposium

    Running from January to May 2024, Head Gardener Fergus Garrett will share his knowledge and skills with you, guiding you towards creating your own long season borders in the Dixter style, through a combination of online lectures, live Q&A sessions and tailored written support material.

  • Behind the scenes at Great Dixter in October

    Behind the scenes at Great Dixter in October

    Great Dixter is a garden that delights and challenges. Our Behind the Scenes Tour in October provides a rare opportunity to enjoy a private viewing of the garden on a day when it is normally closed to the public.

  • Behind the Scenes at Great Dixter in September

    Behind the Scenes at Great Dixter in September

    Great Dixter is a garden that delights and challenges. Our Behind the Scenes Tour in September provides a rare opportunity to enjoy a private viewing of the garden on a day when it is normally closed to the public.

  • Behind the scenes at Great Dixter in August

    Behind the scenes at Great Dixter in August

    Great Dixter is a garden that delights and challenges. Our Behind the Scenes Tour in August provides a rare opportunity to enjoy a private viewing of the garden on a day when it is normally closed to the public.

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    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.

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    Pre-booked tickets are no longer required. Please purchase tickets upon arrival from the kiosk.

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    The Nursery was started by Christopher Lloyd in 1954, specialising in plants he deemed garden-worthy. We remain a small, personal and professional nursery.

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  • Visit the Nursery

    Visit the Nursery

    Whilst the House & Garden are now closed for the season, our fantastic Nursery is still open. Between November 2022 - April 2023, The Nursery is open: Monday - Friday 9am-12:30 and then reopens 1:30pm - 4:30pm. Saturday - 9am - 12:30 Sunday (closed) There is no entrance charge.

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    Great Dixter was the home of gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd (1921-2006), who developed it into a hub of ideas and connections that spread out across the world.

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  • About

    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 the Great Dixter Charitable Trust and Christopher’s friend and head gardener, Fergus Garrett, Great Dixter is an historic house, a garden, a centre of education, and a place of pilgrimage for horticulturists from across the world.

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