Description
Agenda
10am Arrive for 10.30 start
Morning talk with coffee break
1pm Lunch
Afternoon opportunity to explore the garden and nursery* + informal conversation with lecturer and garden/nursery team
Image Credit: Mark Cocksedge
Fergus Garrett: Designing with Plants the Great Dixter Way
£110.00
Frequently described as one of the most influential living garden designers and horticultural educators in Britain today, Fergus Garrett will focus on the colour, texture, shape, repetition and composition employed at Great Dixter. Under Fergus’ guardianship, Christopher Lloyd’s legacy has been preserved and enhanced through a spirit of continuous experimentation, through which so many visitors to Dixter draw inspiration.
Fergus Garrett trained in horticulture at Wye College, London University. He worked in Kent for Rosemary Alexander of the English Gardening School, for Beth Chatto at the Unusual Plants Nursery in Essex and then for the Sackler family at Cap d’Antibes and Gstaad. In 1992 he became head gardener at Great Dixter, working closely with Christopher Lloyd until Christopher’s death in 2006. Since then he has become Chief Executive of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust. Fergus works full-time, hands-on in the garden, as well as writing and lecturing extensively across the world.
*includes 10% discount in nursery
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