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2010 MAIL ORDER PRICE LIST

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Beth Chatto Jute Bags

Specially selected to be sturdy and comfortable enough to hold our plants and books. Priced at only £2.99 they’re perfect for presenting a gift to a gardening friend or using for shopping.

Our bags are made using azo-free low pollution dyes, have been ethically procured from an ETI audited factory and the company that makes them for us is gold standard carbon offset from Equiclimate.

Jute bags can be bought from our shop at the gardens.

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First Honorary Patron of Great Dixter

Great Dixter has long been associated with excellent, free and high spirited gardening. It is a mecca, a place of pilgrimage for many who want to see evocative and dynamic plantsmanship within the setting of a 15th century manor house with a Lutyens wing and Lutyens designed garden. This was the home of the great Christopher Lloyd who left his share of the house and gardens to the Great Dixter Charitable Trust. And now the Trust has secured complete ownership of Great Dixter so that the house, garden, and estate will continue to flourish in the true Dixter style.

Beth Chatto, who through her writings and her extraordinary work, has also been a leading force in world horticulture. Her masterfully planted gardens at Elmstead Market are a place of homage to gardeners from all over the world. And although the styles of these two great gardens and gardeners are quite different, both have a deep understanding of plants, plantsmanship and creativity. Beth and Christopher were close friends who shared a passion; not only for gardening but also music, cooking, and people. So, it is with greatest pleasure that the Great Dixter Charitable Trust announces that its first honorary patron is to be Beth Chatto. There could not be a better person who could accept this role than the leading plants-woman of our times.

Fergus Garrett 18/06/09