Friends Newsletter Autumn 2022

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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 month by month towards creating your own long season borders in the world-famous 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

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

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

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.

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.
Tickets

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

Useful information to consider when visiting Great Dixter House and Gardens
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

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.
Cafe

The Loggia Cafe serves a delicious range of home-made lunches and refreshments. 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

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.
Garden map

Download a map of the garden
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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