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Tag Archives: Edwin Lutyens

Great Dixter – Scripted Chaos

Posted on January 22, 2016 by admin

Great Dixter was one of those beautiful Jekyll-inspired gardens when I first visited, a close relative in garden style to neighbouring Sissinghurst, but then in the late 1980s something remarkable happened. Tall stems of sultry yellow verbascum, like an invading … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Christo, Christopher Lloyd, East Sussex, Edwin Lutyens, Fergus Garrett, Kent and Sussex

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