Christopher Lloyd formed the Great Dixter Charitable Trust in 2004. Today Dixter inspires visitors with its exuberant and dynamic style of gardening. The surrounding estate with its meadows and ancient woodland are managed in the traditional manner to maximise biodiversity and sustainability.
Great Dixter represents a meeting of two worlds – the ornamental and the managed amongst the natural and the wild. Today, Fergus Garrett builds on Christopher Lloyd’s legacy by passing on the skills and knowledge required to future generations.
The garden, house and education programme cost the Trust over £1 million a year to run. Around £700,000 of this comes from visitor, nursery and event income but the remaining £300,000 has to be found from donations as the Trust receives no regular public subsidy.
Dixter relies on its Friends to help maintain its unique environment and support a horticultural training programme for gardeners of all ages and backgrounds.
Please help us to continue this work by becoming a Friend of Great Dixter or by exploring the options below.
Great Dixter was the family home of gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd. Great Dixter is an historic house, a garden, a centre of education, and a place of pilgrimage for horticulturists from across the world. Read more
Support the work of Great Dixter by becoming a Friend. Read more
For £1,000 you can treat yourself or someone else and at the same time help to secure Dixter’s future. Read more
2021 the 100th anniversary of Christopher Lloyd’s birth coincides with the second year of the Covid pandemic. The Centenary Fund was set up to help mollify the inevitable implications of the shortage of income required to maintain the House and Gardens as well as the people and plants. Your donation will help to support us at this difficult time Read more
Support Great Dixter by making a friend a Friend for £72 per annum. Read more
The purpose of the North American Friends of Great Dixter is to support and promote the activities of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust in North America. This page gives more information on how you can become involved. Read more
The creation of a reserve fund to support running costs is key to our continued ability to train gardeners and maintain the innovative, intensive plantings and high standards of horticulture practiced in this important garden. By leaving a legacy or by making a gift in memory of a loved one, you are supporting our work. Read more
Great Dixter is one of 445 heritage organisations across the country set to receive an important financial boost from the government thanks to the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help them through the coronavirus pandemic. Read more
Great Dixter is run by an independent charitable trust and is funded by its own activities and donations. You can help by making a donation, becoming a Friend or leaving a bequest. Read more