Great Dixter

Last Sunday, sister Cate, nephew Tom, Cath and I visited Great Dixter Gardens in East Sussex. We had wanted to visit them for many years having seen them on the t.v. and read about them many times. They are even more beautiful than I had imagined. You approach the house through a wonderful, wild-flower meadow full of native orchids.

Sunday was quite warm and we were glad of the seats placed in the shade of the yew hedges. The yews showed off the plants spectacularly - and did a good job forming a background to this photo of Cate, Cath & Tom!

This photo shows the house behind the "long border". A magnificent building and a beautifully planted bed. We have some of these plants in our garden but unfortunately we do not have the space to rival the scale of these beds.