Publications
Dear Christo: Memories of Christopher Lloyd at Great Dixter, edited by Rosemary Alexander and Fergus Garrett, published 15 October 2010 (160 pp., London: Timber Press, ISBN-10: 1604692235 & ISBN-13: 9781604692235) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:Great Dixter is a place of pilgrimage for gardeners all over the world. Its exuberant plantings have drawn legions of green-fingered visitors for decades. But Great Dixter's influence extends way beyond the gardening world and affects all who pass through it in a very particular way. Well-known garden writers and celebrities such as Alan Titchmarsh, Anna Pavord, Helen Dillon, Hugh Johnson, Simon Jenkins and Mary Keen remark upon their Dixter experiences. Photographers and designers such as Howard Sooley, Jonathan Buckley, Andrew Lawson, Jerry Harpur and Allen Pollok-Morris have also contributed a range of stunning photographs.
Meadows: At Great Dixter and Beyond , by Christopher Lloyd and Fergus Garrett, published 7 April 2016 (240 pp., The Pimpernel Press, ISBN-10: 1910258032 & ISBN-13: 9781910258033) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Abstract:To see a meadow in bloom is a great delight it s alive and teeming with life, mysterious, dynamic . . So Christopher Lloyd began his much-admired instructive and celebratory account of meadows, first published in 2004. Few people knew more about meadow gardening than Lloyd, who spent much of his long life developing the flowering tapestries in his garden at Great Dixter, creating scenes of great beauty and a place of pilgrimage for lovers of wildflowers and wildlife. In Meadows he imparted that lifetime s learning, exploring the development and management of meadow areas, explaining how to establish a meadow in a garden setting, describing the hundreds of beautiful grasses, bulbs and perennials and annuals that thrive in different meadow conditions and detailing how to grow them. Lloyd's classic text remains at the heart of this new book, which also includes as well as much stunning new photography an extensive introduction by Fergus Garrett, Lloyd's head gardener.