Meadows : At Great Dixter and Beyond

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Meadows: At Great Dixter and Beyond (Pimpernel Garden Classics) Hardcover – 7 Apr 2016
Christopher Lloyd (Author), Fergus Garrett (Author)

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: The Pimpernel Press (7 April 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1910258032
• ISBN-13: 978-1910258033

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.

Christopher Lloyd (1921-2006) was a charismatic and controversial gardener and writer who devoted his life to the garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex. He was the author of many best-selling gardening books and wrote for newspapers and magazines. He was created OBE in 2000 and also held the highest award of the Royal Horticultural Society, the Victoria Medal of Honour. After horticultural training at Wye College, Fergus Garrett worked for Rosemary Alexander of the English Gardening School in Kent, for Beth Chatto at the Unusual Plants nursery in Essex and for the Sackler family at Cap d’Antibes and Gstaad before joining Great Dixter as head gardener in 1992. He worked closely with Christopher Lloyd until Lloyd’s death. Garrett is now Chief Executive of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust and combines his full-time, hands-on gardening role at Dixter with writing and lecturing all over the world. In 2015 he was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the RHS. Jonathan Buckley specializes in garden and plant photography. He has illustrated many books and is widely published in newspapers and magazines. Carol Casselden is an award-winning photographer of gardens and plants. She lives in East Sussex.