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The house and garden are open to the public from the end of March to late October each year, while the nursery is open year-round. [7] In 2003, the Great Dixter Charitable Trust was established by Christopher Lloyd to ensure the property was preserved after his death. [8] Education is at the heart of the trust's work.
Lloyd was born in Great Dixter, into an upper-middle-class family, the youngest of six children. In 1910, his father, Nathaniel Lloyd, an Arts and Crafts architect, author, printer and designer of posters and other images for confectionery firms, [2]), bought Great Dixter, a manor house in Northiam, East Sussex near the south coast of England.
The Dixter gardens had lost a sense of clear direction and Garrett helped bring drive and energy to the planning and planting design. After Lloyd's death he went on to become Chief Executive of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, Lloyd not wishing the house and gardens to "stagnate" under English Heritage or National Trust ownership. [3] [4] [1]
When he retired from his business in 1909, Nathaniel Lloyd began looking for an old house to buy and renovate. In 1910 he purchased the 15th century manor house Dixter for the sum of £6,000 and also bought a 16th century timbered yeoman’s house in Benenden Kent, subject to a demolition order, for £75, dismantling it and moving it to Dixter.
Gardens in England is a link page for any garden, botanical garden, arboretum or pinetum open to the public in England. The National Gardens Scheme also opens many small, interesting, private gardens to the public on one or two days a year for charity.
Great Dixter Gardens (East Sussex, England): Laid out by Nathaniel Lloyd, the author of a book on topiary, and preserved and extended by his son, the garden-writer Christopher Lloyd. Much Wenlock Priory, Shropshire; Drummond Castle Gardens (Perthshire, Scotland) Portmeirion (Snowdonia, Wales) Parc des Topiares (Durbuy, Belgium)
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Pages in category "Gardens in East Sussex" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Great Dixter; M. Michelham Priory; O. Old Steine Gardens; R.