When we left Sissinghurst that day, I wondered how any garden would be able to match it. But, Great Dixter did. Great Dixter is a house in Northiam, East Sussex, England. It was built in 1910–12 by architect Edwin Lutyens. The original Northiam house, dating from the mid-15th century, was acquired by a businessman named Nathaniel Lloyd in 1909.
Lloyd and Lutyens began the garden at Great Dixter, but it was Lloyd’s son Christopher Lloyd, a well known garden writer and television personality, who made it famous. The garden is in the arts and crafts style, where the planting is profuse, yet structured, and has featured many bold experiments of form, colour and combination.
The garden is currently managed by Fergus Garrett, who worked closely with Lloyd up until his death in 2006 as Head Gardener and introduced a number of innovations into the planting scheme.
I hope you enjoy the variety of this garden in my short gallery! For species and other facts, please visit Jude again!
I am sorry to say I haven’t even tried to find the names of all the flowers, but, Jude will know.
They are all glorious. The house and gardens are my number one from this week.
There will still be more gardens to come…
Leya 
Lovely garden once again, great photos as always 😀
Thank you, Ritva, my favourite garden on the trip.
Wonderful garden, such great color and variety.
Thank you!
The integration of an imaginative and innovative natural infrastructure with the urban or rural construction of human dwellings is part of modern art for a better human lifestyle.
As you know, I LOVE Dixter, and you have some great images here, A C. And it’s a hard place to leave….
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Oh wow! Another garden I need to visit!
♥ You do!
I loved Great Dixter when we visited but it was many years ago and I have only a handful of photos. Thank you for taking me back and immersing me in its beauty 🙂
♥ You are welcome – it’s my pleasure!
I think I preferred it to Sissinghurst. At least when I visited several years ago. There was much more in the way of colour. And the house itself is a beauty. I love your poppy head photo!
I preferred this one too. And the house is a dream. I found it very difficult to photograph this garden though. Loved the cramming of flowers, but I took less photos here because of it.
I had to look at my post to see what I had written. We have a few similar photos despite them being 10 years apart.
Thank you – can I link to you? You are a veritable dictionary ♥
It would be my pleasure. I have a list of gardens on that site to refer to, though I no longer update it.
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Looks wonderful! Thank you for sharing this. Kind regards…Jay😊
Thank you – so glad you liked it.
You are welcome😊
There are times when I think I should give up blogging. It takes up too much of my life. And then I come here. How can I possibly do it?
Jo, I cannot but agree, I have thought about leaving it for some years now, and then, I would have so greatly missed all the beauty and my friends here. Your always cheerful comments, Jo, and over the years a kind of bond has been made to many of the wp bloggers. And I have met some too in real life. I’d love to do a walk with you too, Jo. Maybe some day…
Yes, maybe… wouldn’t that be great 🤗🩷
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Fabulous Ann-Christine. Thanks for sharing 🥰
Thank you – an old dream of mine come true. And that is always precious.
Oh my, this is stunning! What a magnificent garden!
Thank you, Egidio – a dream come true coming here for a visit!
What a most amazingly beautiful house and garden. Your photo gallery does it justice. I loved the virtual tour with you
I am glad you loved it too! Thank you! Those English houses – wow!
Simply beautiful. Love it!
I did not want to leave…
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