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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 potted plants. Places are limited to 12 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. 

Meadow gardening

Meadow gardening

Discover the secrets of meadow gardening using the marvellous Great Dixter meadows as an example. You will be taken through the process of creating your own meadow and maintaining it. Includes slides and talks and practical sessions in the meadows. Read more

Start: 6th June, 2022 at 10:00am

End: 6th June, 2022 at 4:00pm

Published: 20th April, 2021

Updated: 29th March, 2022

Author: Joseph Blick

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

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Good planting

Good planting

Learn how to combine plants using colour, shape, texture, repetition and balance. The aim is to bring you closer to designing your borders and associating plants with ease. Includes slides and talks, plus sessions in the garden. Read more

Start: 27th June, 2022 at 10:00am

End: 27th June, 2022 at 4:00pm

Published: 21st April, 2021

Updated: 27th April, 2022

Author: Joseph Blick

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

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Succession planting in the mixed border

Succession planting in the mixed border

The magnificent Long Border will be used as an example of how to plan and put into practice a long season border using structural plants, underplanting and interplanting of bulbs, use of self-sowers, pockets of bedding, masking with climbers, and good maintenance. This intensive day will include slides, talks, and discussion sessions on the border. Read more

Start: 18th July, 2022 at 10:00am

End: 18th July, 2022 at 4:00pm

Published: 21st April, 2021

Updated: 3rd May, 2022

Author: Joseph Blick

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

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Exotic gardening

Exotic gardening

Gain an insight into Great Dixter’s tropical garden. From design, plant choice, the act of planting, and maintenance, to the winter care of plants, Fergus Garrett will take you through the process step by step. Learn how to incorporate some of these plants to extend the season of colour in your own borders. The day will include slides, talks and practical sessions in the Exotic Garden. Read more

Start: 12th September, 2022 at 10:00am

End: 12th September, 2022 at 4:00pm

Published: 20th April, 2021

Updated: 29th March, 2022

Author: Joseph Blick

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 potted plants. Places are limited to 12 Read more

Start: 19th September, 2022 at 10:00am

End: 19th September, 2022 at 4:00pm

Published: 27th January, 2022

Updated: 26th April, 2022

Author: Laura Andrew

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

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Integrating and using bulbs

Integrating and using bulbs

Using the gardens and borders at Great Dixter as inspiration, Fergus Garrett talks through the varied uses of bulbs in the garden. Planting ideas will include: naturalised planting in grass and meadows; using bulbs mixed within permanent border plantings; using bulbs as pocket plantings and creating bulb displays in containers. Fergus will also give advice on how to deal with bulbs after flowering and what to consider when buying your bulbs. Read more

Start: 31st October, 2022 at 10:00am

End: 31st October, 2022 at 4:00pm

Published: 20th April, 2021

Updated: 29th April, 2022

Author: Joseph Blick

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

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Getting the garden ready

Getting the garden ready

This look behind the scenes takes you through the preparation and planning involved in getting a complex garden like Great Dixter ready through the winter for spring and summer. It will include the garden timetable, composting and soil preparation, weeding, thinning out of self-sowers, working off of boards, splitting, dividing and planting self-sowers, timing of seed sowing and pricking out, choosing annuals for adding to the display and a brief when and how to prune. All in all it’s an in Read more

Start: 21st November, 2022 at 10:00am

End: 21st November, 2022 at 4:00pm

Published: 20th April, 2021

Updated: 29th March, 2022

Author: Joseph Blick

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

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  • 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. The tour includes an introduction to the history of the garden, the planting and what goes on behind the scenes to make it work.

  • Behind the Scenes at Great Dixter in July

    Behind the Scenes at Great Dixter in July

    Great Dixter is a garden that delights and challenges. Our Behind the Scenes Tour in July provides a rare opportunity to enjoy a private viewing of the garden on a day when it is normally closed to the public. The tour includes an introduction to the history of the garden, the planting and what goes on behind the scenes to make it work.

  • Behind the Scenes at Great Dixter in June

    Behind the Scenes at Great Dixter in June

    Great Dixter is a garden that delights and challenges. Our Behind the Scenes Tour in June provides a rare opportunity to enjoy a private viewing of the garden on a day when it is normally closed to the public. The tour includes an introduction to the history of the garden, the planting and what goes on behind the scenes to make it work.

  • The Christopher Lloyd Lecture 2022: An evening with Howard Sooley

    The Christopher Lloyd Lecture 2022: An evening with Howard Sooley

    Fergus will introduce the evening and in the Great Hall Howard Sooley will give a lecture using images and film clips showing his close relationship with Great Dixter and its people over the past 30 years.

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  • Opening times

    Opening times

    Great Dixter House & Gardens are now open Tuesday - Sunday and bank holidays. There is no need to prebook tickets online. The Gardens & Shop are open between 11am - 5pm The House is open between 12 noon - 4 pm The Loggia is open between 10.30am - 5pm. However, the Great Dixter Nursery is open daily (Mon-Sun) between 9am - 5pm

  • Tickets

    Tickets

    Pre-booked tickets are no longer required. Please purchase tickets upon arrival from the kiosk. We ask that visitors to the House and Shop continue to wear face coverings and maintain a respectful social distance.

  • Visitor information

    Useful information to consider when visiting Great Dixter House and Gardens

  • 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.

  • How to find us

    Details of how to travel to Great Dixter

  • Visit the Nursery

    Visit the Nursery

    Whilst the House & Garden are now closed for the season, our fantastic Nursery is still open. Between November 2021 - April 2022, 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.

  • Cafe

    Cafe

    The Loggia cafe is now closed for the season but will re-open on the 29th March. The cafe serves a delicious range of home-made lunches, snacks, hot and cold drinks and cakes, all freshly cooked here at Dixter. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten free options are available. Please inform staff if you have any special dietary requirements or allergies and they will endeavour to help.

  • Christopher Lloyd

    Christopher Lloyd

    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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