The Great Dixter Journal 2024

The Great Dixter Journal 2023

The 2022 Great Dixter Journal is the seventh in the series.  Forewords by our Patron Anna Pavord and Head Gardener Fergus Garrett; articles by the current Christopher Lloyd and Ruth Borun Scholars; a piece on Great Dixter during the Second World War; a photo essay by Howard Sooley and much more in its 92 pages, all bound by a cover depicting a lichen-encrusted York stone paving slab.

The 2021 Great Dixter Journal Centenary Edition

This Journal published 100 years after Christopher Lloyd’s birth on 2nd March 1921. To reflect this, there is a running theme of ten by ten. It was produced in the year of the Covid pandemic.

Includes:

Frontispiece by Patron Anna Pavord 10 Things by Fergus Garrett 10 Life Moments by Roy Brigden Counting on Christo by Ken Rawson The Art Auction for the Lockdown Fund As well as: Jamie Todd, Liz Pickett, Dean Charlton, Nicky Flint, Peter Slothower, John Tanner, Margaret Easter and Carol Joughin

Includes:
Supporting Biodiversity by Fergus Garrett
Letters from Christopher by Anna Pavord
Oliver Cromwell Lloyd by Roy Brigden
Wine, Christo and the Dixter cellars by Michael Schuster
Altering the Stockbeds in the Peacock Garden by Fergus Garrett

As well as:
Jack McCoy, Anne Ainsley, Olivia Eller, Carol Casselden, Emma Seniuk, Catherine Horwood, Imogen Hambridge, Julie Coley, Dean Charlton, Kathleen Leighton, Carol Joughin

Includes:
The Christopher Lloyd Lecture 2017 by Romke van de Kaa
One day in autumn by Emli Bendixen
Hidden in plain sight by Anne Ainsley
Foraging through edible landscapes by Michael Wachter

As well as:
Roy Brigden, Carol Casselden, Martin Kyran, Louise Bell, Dean Charlton, Margaret Ashbrook, Alejandro Prigollini, Sophie Cooke, Ulrike Widman, James McGrath. With preface by Fergus Garrett.

For this, the third volume of the Great Dixter Journal, we thought we would challenge the multi-talented people working in the garden to fill the pages with their words and images. The contributors are staff, part-timers, students, trainees, gardeners, volunteers or symposium attendees.
Linda Jones

Includes:
Tokachi Millennium Forest by Michael Wachter
Winter at Dixter by Lisa Haggqvist
Nathaniel Lloyd by Roy Brigden
Rain Gauge by Kathleen Leighton
The old wooden gate by Molly Hendry
Symposia by Elizabeth Coombs, Linda Fuller and Linda Smith

As well as:
Dean Charlton, Julie Weiss, Marc O’Neil, Emma Burrill, Lewis Bosher, Dixter on Camera, Claire Williamson, Jo Hillier, Deb Wiles, Roz Greenwood and Andrew Walker.

I am delighted to introduce Volume Two of The Great Dixter Journal. Encouraged by the warmth of the reception for last year’s inaugural edition, we have decided to take the plunge for a second time. The content embodies as broad a mix as before, arranged around a common thread: the connections Great Dixter forges between people – near and far, past and present – and the different forms of inspiration that the House and Garden have given them. Geoffrey Dyer, Chair of the Trustees

Includes:
Letter from Beth Chatto
Fergus Garrett in Conversation
Visiting Dixter by Louis Turpin
Nathaniel Lloyd and the furnishing of Great Dixter by Charles Hind

As well as:
Olivia Eller, Claire Williamson, Dixter on Camera, Anny Evason, Michael Wachter, Roy Brigden, and Chris Hutt.

This is the first issue of The Great Dixter Journal and is offered very much as an experiment. It has become increasingly apparent that the Friends’ Newsletter, with its necessarily brief format, is not able to deal fully with some of the more in-depth and valuable material being offered. So it makes sense to develop a dedicated publication for that, perhaps on an annual basis. With 2016 being the tenth anniversary of Christopher Lloyd’s death, there was an obvious additional stimulus to turn the Journal from an aspiration into reality. A good proportion of the articles here, therefore, have taken the opportunity to provide personal perspectives on Great Dixter over the last decade and beyond. Roy Brigden, Editor.

Includes:
Preface by Fergus Garrett
The House at Great Dixter – Changes in Time by Olivier Eller
Great Dixter Ten Years On by Anna Pavord
Going Round the Garden by Frank Ronan

As well as:
Kemal Mehdi and Jo Hillier, Siew Lee Vorley, Romke van de Kaa, Carol Casselden, Dan Pearson, Tom Cooper, Kyle Landt, Roy Brigden, Kathleen Leighton and Jonny Bruce.