Great Dixter House and Gardens

Great Dixter House and Gardens Gardening writer, Christopher Lloyd's house and gardens, situated in Northiam, East Sussex, now under the stewardship of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust.
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For more information visit www.greatdixter.co.uk.

September in the garden
12/09/2026

September in the garden

The Sid and Marty Jones BursaryThe Sid and Marty Jones Bursary provides an annual opportunity for a US-based gardener to...
04/09/2026

The Sid and Marty Jones Bursary

The Sid and Marty Jones Bursary provides an annual opportunity for a US-based gardener to spend 3 to 5 months living and working at Great Dixter in the UK.

Great Dixter is a garden that is known for its highly creative exuberant style of planting, innovative working practices that support and promote wildlife and biodiversity, and its work teaching and mentoring highly skilled gardeners. It is led by Fergus Garrett, supported by a creative and dynamic team.

The Sid and Marty Jones bursary provides an annual educational opportunity for a USA- based professional gardener or trainee gardener to spend a chosen period of 3-5 months during the winter season living and working at Great Dixter (from January -March, April or May) in order to learn traditional gardening skills and techniques that they can use in their own work and share with others in the US. The winter period is one of the busiest times of the work schedule at Great Dixter where borders are edited, pulled apart and a lot of new planting done. The bursary will provide the recipient valuable insight into this critical time.

The bursary also provides the chosen person with an opportunity to experience living and working in another country and be part of an inspiring team. The person selected will join a team that includes other scholars and students and a culture that promotes learning and development of the individual.

The chosen person will likely be a professional gardener able to take a sabbatical during the winter months, or a horticulturist between professional roles.

The chosen candidate will receive a stipend from the North American Friends of Great Dixter, to be used for their living expenses. All other costs to the Bursary recipient would be covered by the Bursary, including visa costs, flights, on-site accommodation, equipment, and a travel fund which can be used to cover educational trips while in the UK and airport transfers.

To apply please email [email protected] with a CV and cover letter by the 10th October 2026.

More details on the link in bio.

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Despite the heat and dry weather, the garden is still rich with detail and looking stunning.
21/07/2026

Despite the heat and dry weather, the garden is still rich with detail and looking stunning.

A mixture of dawn and dusk at Dixter. Veratrum album with Hedychium forrestii coming into flower in the Walled Garden wh...
09/07/2026

A mixture of dawn and dusk at Dixter. Veratrum album with Hedychium forrestii coming into flower in the Walled Garden while the Verbascum olympicum spires shoot up through the Orchard Garden.

03/07/2026

Join us for a Behind the Scenes tour on Monday, July 27th.

Our Behind the Scenes tours provide a special opportunity to enjoy a private viewing of the garden on a day when we are normally closed to the public. Led by the garden and nursery teams, you will gain insight into the work, thought process, and planting choices that go into the Great Dixter borders followed by a tour of the nursery looking at the propagation happening this month.

Plenty of time will be given to look around, take photos and ask questions to the team. Part way through the tour, there is a break for tea and cake.

To book, visit the link in our bio.

27/06/2026

Swifts swirling overhead at Dixter this week.

We’ve installed a number of swift boxes and callers throughout the garden to provide potential nesting sites for these miraculous birds. The project has been led by Sarah Seymour under the guidance of Edward Mayer of Swift Conservation, with the nest boxes expertly built by Ben Robbins.

While we’re still waiting to see whether the swifts choose to nest in the boxes, we’re excited to watch them dipping and diving around the iconic Lutyens roofline and chimneys. Swifts eat, sleep and mate on the wing and therefore depend on the vast numbers of insects which the garden at Dixter provides.

One of the simplest things people can do to is to install swift boxes or bricks on their homes. These should be sited in partial shade and with at least 5 metres of vertical clearance for swifts to swoop into at high-speed.

25/06/2026

Dixter last evening

16/06/2026

Solar Garden bedding combination of autumn sown hardy annuals: Echium vulgare ‘Blue Bedder’, Campanula patula, Silene armeria, Silene ‘Blue Angel’, Tolpis barbatus and Limonium suworowii. More videos on slides 9 and 10.

Elsewhere in the garden, the seed heads of the early spring flowering plants mix with the summer flowering perennials.

We are thrilled to be involved with the northern Flowerhouse movement.Come and support this fantastic community of garde...
16/06/2026

We are thrilled to be involved with the northern Flowerhouse movement.
Come and support this fantastic community of gardeners on the 18th and 19th of June in Liverpool.

A Matucana month! We’re loving our sweet peas.
12/06/2026

A Matucana month! We’re loving our sweet peas.

Address

Great Dixter Northiam Rye
Rye
TN316PH

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 5pm
Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

Telephone

01797252878

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