Full title:
In My Garden
The Garden Diaries of Great Dixter

Paperback
288 pages
Bloomsbury Publishing

Taken from Christopher Lloyd’s weekly column in Country Life, In My Garden (first published in 1993) is a collection of anecdotes, advice and ruminations covering each month of the year at Great Dixter.

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.

Full title: Greenwood Crafts – A Comprehensive Guide

Hardback
240 pages
2012
24.6 x 18.9 cm

Britain has a long and rich tradition of woodcrafts and what, since about the 1970s, have been called the ‘greenwood crafts’. Greenwood crafts use wood that contains sap and is easy to work with simple hand tools to produce beautiful and useful products.

This book: discusses all you need to know to get started, including tools, workshops, sourcing wood, making some of your own devices and the characteristics of the various woods; covers a wide variety of turned and carved items for the house and garden; examines a wide range of greenwood chairs, describes how they are made and highlights the talent and creativity of a number of expert craftspeople in the field; examines a number of basket-making techniques involving a range of raw materials; considers a range of items for garden and agricultural use such as rustic furniture, wood store, shakes, shelters, fences and basic timber framing; explores the future of greenwood working, takes a look at some of the new ideas emerging from the sector and includes handy hints on running a greenwood business.

Paperback
80 Pages
Pimpernel Press

Photographs by Christopher Lloyd & Carol Casselden
Words by Fergus Garrett

A carefully chosen selection of Christopher Lloyd’s photographs, the great majority published for the first time. They are juxtaposed with images from the Lloyd family’s earliest days at Dixter, and with photographs taken by Carol Casselden of the garden as it is today. Fergus Garrett provides a running commentary on the changing garden and the different plantings.

Signed by Fergus Garrett

“A fascinating record of how Dixter has been shaped and enriched over the years. Like the garden it celebrates, this is a multi-layered, diverse display of delights.”

Gardens Illustrated

By Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto with a new introduction by Fergus Garrett

Paperback

304 Pages

Aurum

This volume contains an exchange of letters spanning the gardening year, as two long-established friends and distinguished gardeners, Beth Chatto and Christopher Lloyd share observations, anecdotes and tips from their years of experience.

Signed by Fergus Garrett

The Best of Christopher Lloyd, introduction by Fergus Garrett

Hardback
360 Pages
W&N

A Lifetime of Seasons follows the evolution of Christopher Lloyd’s extraordinary talent – both with words and with plants – over the course of his life. Accompanied by an introduction from Fergus Garrett, Head Gardener at Great Dixter.

Published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Christo’s birth.

Signed by Fergus Garrett

Hardback book
216 pages
Richard Dennis Publications

This illuminating account of setting up and running a pottery reminds us of the complexities and the disciplines of this art. Pottery is a science too, but science is seldom as readable as this delightful book.

Christopher Lloyd acquired more than 30 of Alan Caiger-Smith’s pots, both for himself and as gifts. A selection are permanently on display at Great Dixter. There is also a display of over 100 pieces including pots from Alan’s reference collection being held at Great Dixter throughout the month of October 2013.

Full title: Meadows at Great Dixter and Beyond
By Christopher Lloyd with a new introduction by Fergus Garrett

Hardback
240 pages
The Pimpernel Press (7th April 2016)

‘To see a meadow in bloom is a great delight – it’s alive and teeming with life, mysterious, dynamic…’

So Christopher Lloyd began his much-admired instructive and celebratory account of meadows, first published in 2004. Few people knew more about meadow gardening than Lloyd, who spent much of his long life developing the flowering tapestries in his garden at Great Dixter, creating scenes of great beauty and a place of pilgrimage for lovers of wildflowers and wildlife.

In Meadows he imparted that lifetime’s learning, exploring the development and management of meadow areas, explaining how to establish a meadow in a garden setting, describing the hundreds of beautiful grasses, bulbs and perennials and annuals that thrive in different meadow conditions and detailing how to grow them.

Christopher Lloyd’s classic text remains at the heart of this new book, which also includes – as well as much stunning new photography – an extensive introduction by Fergus Garrett.

Contains the Great Dixter bookplate. This new edition is signed 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.