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Open every day from 9.00am to 5.00pm including Bank Holidays until 31 October 2024. From 1 November, we are open as follows: Mon – Fri : 9am – 12.30pm and 1.30pm – 4.30pm. Sat : 9am – 12.30pm. Closed on Sunday. Great Dixter is a garden you can immerse yourself in, vibrant, daring, and exciting.
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Great Dixter House and Gardens. Open from 11am to 5pm (last...
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You can purchase Annual Tickets by visiting our online shop...
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Visitor Information Great Dixter Shop. Our shop is open from...
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Garden Explorers is an adventurous group for children and...
- Nursery & Shop
Great Dixter was the family home of gardener and gardening...
- The Nursery
This is a charming part of Great Dixter with wooden potting...
- About
The first glimpse of Great Dixter, its great tiled and...
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In addition, Great Dixter invites several external speakers...
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Great Dixter is a house in Northiam, East Sussex, England. It was built in 1910–12 by architect Edwin Lutyens , who combined an existing mid-15th century house on the site with a similar structure brought from Benenden , Kent, together with his own additions.
Oct 14, 2023 · A little over a decade ago, the Heritage Lottery Fund granted the sum of about £4 million to Great Dixter Garden. At the time, the naysayers, led by Sir Roy Strong, protested that no garden could be kept in perpetuity. Others, who had enjoyed Christopher Lloyd’s weekly column on these pages for nearly half a century, imagined that it was his ...
- Mary Keen
Feb 19, 2021 · By Fergus Garrett. 19 February 2021. The Long Border was Christopher Lloyd's mother Daisy’s pet in the early days, always backed by a yew hedge. Early photographs show the young yews. As time went by, the border became fuller and more layered as more and more bulbs were added. The variegated weigela is the oldest plant.
- Fergus Garrett
History. The first glimpse of Great Dixter, its great tiled and timbered bulk reclining comfortably on the gentle slope of the hill, suggests that there is a building of great antiquity, surely completed by the end of the Middle Ages, and as much a part of the history of the Sussex Weald as Bodiam Castle or Northiam Church. Appearances are ...
There is this (the Great Hall), a 16 th century Yeoman’s House that was actually built in nearby Benenden and transported to Dixter in 1910, and a third part of the house built in 1912. The hall is vast and has a unique combination of Medieval gravitas and Edwardian charm! It was built in approximately 1450 and has a high vaulted ceiling ...
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Adult: £18.00. Gardens only: Adult: £16.50. Garden tours: Treat your group to a one-hour tour of the garden with a member of the Great Dixter gardening team. These tours will take place upon arrival. Maximum group size 25. Tour price: £150.00 including VAT, or £300.00 with our Head Gardener Fergus Garrett.
