Great Dixter

Edwin Lutyens built the house at Great Dixter in 1910 for Nathaniel Lloyd, joining a fifteenth-century hall house with a matching timber-framed structure moved from Benenden. Lloyd's son Christopher Lloyd, the garden writer, spent decades turning the grounds into an Arts and Crafts garden of topiary, a long border and a wildflower meadow, and the plant nursery he started in 1954 still sells stock raised on site. Fergus Garrett has run the garden as head gardener since Lloyd's death in 2006, under the Great Dixter Charitable Trust. The house and garden are Grade I listed and open from late March to October, while the nursery, housed in restored potting sheds, trades all year with no entry charge.