Great Dixter lays claim to being the most
innovative, spectacular and provocative garden of the 20th century. Made famous
by the much-loved eccentric plantsman and writer Christopher Lloyd, who used
the garden as a living laboratory and documented his experiments in a weekly
column in Country Life, Great Dixter began life as a Gertrude Jeykll-inspired
Arts and Crafts garden surrounding a house designed by Edwin Lutyens.
The Lloyd family created Dixter just before
the outbreak of the First World War with the intention of establishing a rural
idyll for Christo and his five siblings. Dixter was to be both Christo's
horticultural nursery and the setting for his rebellion in late middle age as
he finally threw off the shackles of his intense bond with his mother to make
the garden and his life his own.
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