Great Dixter
Series exploring four iconic gardens looks at Great Dixter, which lays claim to being the most innovative, spectacular and provocative garden of the 20th century.
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 Jekyll-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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The early life of eccentric plantsman Christopher Lloyd
Duration: 02:12
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Lutyens' plans
Duration: 02:18
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Producer | Ruairi Fallon |
Director | Ruairi Fallon |
Executive Producer | Katie Buchanan |
Broadcasts
- Tue 8 Apr 2014 21:00
- Wed 9 Apr 2014 02:50
- Thu 10 Apr 2014 23:00
- Mon 15 Sep 2014 20:00
- Tue 16 Sep 2014 01:40
- Thu 18 Sep 2014 23:00
- Mon 5 Jan 2015 21:00
- Tue 6 Jan 2015 03:00
- Wed 22 Jul 2015 20:00
- Thu 23 Jul 2015 01:45
- Mon 26 Sep 2016 22:00
- Tue 26 Sep 2017 23:00
- Wed 27 Sep 2017 02:30
- Sun 20 May 2018 23:35