A Weekend with Fergus Garrett

Summer Benefit featuring A Weekend with Fergus Garrett

Friday, July 11 – Sunday, July 13

Hosted by Landcraft Garden Foundation

Join us for a special weekend with Fergus Garrett, Chief Executive and Head Gardener at Great Dixter—the longtime family home of Christopher Lloyd in East Sussex, UK. Great Dixter is famously known as one of the most influential and celebrated gardens in the world. Since his arrival in 1993, Fergus worked closely with Christopher Lloyd to transform Great Dixter into the garden laboratory that it is today, where new ideas are tested, generations of horticulturists are trained, and groundbreaking research is carried out.

Today, the Great Dixter property is filled with wildflower meadows; a 150-foot border of boldly colorful flowering shrubs, perennials and bulbs; a kitchen garden; the Sunk Garden (a floral-filled courtyard centered on an octagonal pond); the Old Rose Garden (now filled with rare and exotic plants); and the Peacock Garden, where eighteen giant yew topiary birds preside over peaceful thalictrums, asters, teasels and grasses.

This immersive event at Landcraft Garden Foundation offers a rare opportunity to learn directly from Fergus through lectures, garden tours, and hands-on demonstrations.

Schedule of Events

Friday July 11th, 2025

5:00pm - Cocktail reception and garden stroll at the Landcraft Garden Foundation

7:00pm - Dinner in the garden

Cocktail reception and dinner catered by Fyr & Salt

Saturday July 12th, 2025

10:00am - 12:00pm - Great Dixter Biodiversity Audit and Planting Styles Lecture at Mattituck High School

12:00pm - 4:00pm - Lunch on your own followed by self guided tours of three local private gardens (map to gardens provided via email prior to Saturday morning lecture)

4:30pm -6:30pm - "Dixter" style border demonstration followed by wine reception at the Landcraft Garden Foundation

Sunday July 13th, 2025

10:00am - 12:00pm - Great Dixter Biodiversity Audit discussion with light refreshments served at the Landcraft Garden Foundation

AGE: Adult audiences

WEATHER: Rain or Shine

SPECIAL NOTES: Please dress appropriately for events and workshops held outdoors: comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are recommended. To be a source of healthy insects for our birds and other insect-feeding wildlife, we do not use insecticides in the gardens.

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