Great Dixter: Then & Now

About Fergus Garrett

Fergus Garrett was chosen by Christopher Lloyd as his head gardener at Dixter in 1992. He worked closely with Christo until Lloyd's death in 2006. He is now Chief Executive of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust and also combines his full-time hands-on gardening role at Dixter with writing and lecturing all over the world. He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the RHS in 2015 and in 2019 the coveted Victoria Medal of Honour. Carol Casseldenis an award-winning photographer of gardens and plants. She lived at Sandhurst in Kent close to Great Dixter until a recent move to Edinburgh. Christopher Lloyd (1921-2006) was a plantsman in a class of his own and was widely regarded as 'the best-informed liveliest and most innovative gardening writer of our times' (Rosemary Alexander The Guardian). He wrote regularly for newspapers and magazines including The Guardian and Country Life and was the author of a string of best-selling gardening books. He was created OBE in 2000 and also held the highest award of the Royal Horticultural Society the Victoria Medal of Honour. Fergus Garrett was chosen by Christopher Lloyd as his head gardener at Dixter in 1992. He worked closely with Christo until Lloyd's death in 2006. He is now Chief Executive of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust and also combines his full-time hands-on gardening role at Dixter with writing and lecturing all over the world. He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the RHS in 2015 and in 2019 the coveted Victoria Medal of Honour.