On 29/1/06 7:00, in article , "madgardener"
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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From the BBC's web site:
"Writer and gardener dies aged 84
Writer and gardener Christopher Lloyd has died just months after launching
a
£3m campaign to preserve the house and garden to which he devoted his
life.
Mr Lloyd, who was 84, died in hospital in Hastings, East Sussex on Friday.
He had a stroke after surgery on his leg, his great nephew Chris Lloyd
said.
Great Dixter, at Northiam, near Rye has been in the Lloyd family since
1910
and Mr Lloyd wanted to ensure it survived.
He set up the Great Dixter Charitable Trust to take over when he died. "
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
)
Thanks for sharing this sad news with us, Sacha. I will always remember
him as the white haired old gentleman who wore two earrings and who
gardened the way he wanted to! I'm thankful that I got to see the National
Public Television Station (PBS) cover him and his grandson's gardens on
Victory Garden a few years back. He inspired many wonderful and
innovative ideas and he will be sadly missed. Quite the character. The
route that gardening is taking, I'm sure he left significent stewards to
carry on with gardening in his aftermath.

marilyn the madgardener up on the ridge, back in Fairy Holler, overlooking
English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee (whose own garden reflects a diversity
as well)


From what I can see, CL didn't like any kind of 'formulaic' gardening, or
approach to gardening. He was very scathing about the 'instant' garden tv
programmes and that sort of approach to gardening. He wrote something
recently about the Trust needing about millions which he didn't go into
detail about, so I don't know whether he actually owned it, or not. On
another occasion, he said that he couldn't think of anything more awful than
the place falling into the hands of the National Trust!
I imagine Felix will remain there, looking after and guiding things - I
certainly hope so!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
)