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Great Dixter

Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
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Called in to see Great Dixter gardens in East Sussex on Sunday on our way home and loved the place. Very exuberant relaxed kind of planting and very colourful. Had to fight our way through some of the plants in places!  Great nursery at reasonable prices, tea and cakes also went down well - all in all, worth a day out. The Head Gardener/Trustee? Fergus Garrett, had given our local Gardening Club a very good talk a year or so ago and I'd been wanting to visit ever since.
North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    One of my favourite gardens (and I love the house interior too).  It's a gorgeous garden to visit at this time of year  <3

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    My favourite too.
    Christopher Lloyds books are wonderful too.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I had a great time at Dixter there this summer. Sissinghurst isn't far.
  • FirecrackerFirecracker Posts: 256
    One of my top gardens.  B)
  • 1634 Racine1634 Racine Posts: 568
    The spring and autumn plant fayres are good fun too.  Come to think of it that must be coming up soon.
  • ZeroZero1ZeroZero1 Posts: 577
    Loved it too all that informality but organised. When I went, there was a Cotoneaster Horizontalis that was simply a mass of bees - maybe 500 or more. i prompltly went home and planted one, no luck so far. 
    Bees are their own master I guess...
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