"Sacha" wrote in message
...
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. "

bugger;
I always wanted to visit Dixter and just never got round to it. His column
in the Grauniad was excellent. I have one amazing picture book about Great
Dixter by him published by DK that looks like a shallow coffee table thing
but the pictures are brilliant and the text gives long lists of varieties
and tips.



--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
)