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. Read more
Great Dixter is a garden that delights and challenges. Our Behind the Scenes Tour in March provides a rare opportunity to enjoy a private viewing of the garden on a day when it is normally closed to the public. Read more
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
This 3 day course led by Fergus and the garden team will take you through the planning and practical steps needed to prepare a complex garden like Great Dixter for the spring and summer display Read more
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. Read more
Tuesday 16 January 2024 This hour long tour of the Lutyens Wing will show you the Lutyens / Lloyds collaboration, taking you from the kitchens and servants hall, up to the first floor family bedrooms and Day Nursery and into the Yeomans Hall. The tour finishes with tea and coffee served in the Kitchen. More dates available throughout 2024. Read more
Join the waiting list for 2025 dates. Great Dixter is a renowned and innovative garden that depends on a high degree of craftsmanship to maintain and develop its year round display. This is an advanced course, exploring and teaching the skills necessary for establishing, developing and managing a garden in this style. Teaching takes place monthly through the year from February to January. Read more
An opportunity to see the Lutyens wing of the house. This hour long tour will show you the Lutyens / Lloyds collaboration and take you from the kitchens and servants hall, up to the first floor family bedrooms and into the Yeomans Hall brought from Benenden by horse and cart in 1910. The tour will conclude with tea and coffee served in the Kitchen. Read more
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
Now booking for 2024 The garden at Great Dixter provides the perfect setting for students to learn about the art and craft of garden design. This innovative course is held one day per month, from March to November, and as the course unfolds you will be able to observe and study the garden throughout the changing seasons. Read more
This study day will teach you how to combine plants using colour, shape, texture, repetition and balance. Read more
Great Dixter is a garden that delights and challenges. Our Behind the Scenes Tour in April provides a rare opportunity to enjoy a private viewing of the garden on a day when it is normally closed to the public. Read more
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
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. Read more
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
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. Read more
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. Read more
Gain an insight into how Fergus and the team use subtropical plants at Great Dixter to create a lush textured tropical effect. Read more