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Any tips before we go?


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Mike wrote:

Any tips before we go?


Sure
Look at
http://www.greatdixter.co.uk/
or all the other urls you will find with google.
Mind the opening hours, though.
Roger.

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Mike wrote:

Any tips before we go?


Sure
Look at
http://www.greatdixter.co.uk/
or all the other urls you will find with google.
Mind the opening hours, though.
Roger.

Thanks for that, we have in fact already looked at that site and we are
booked in. Just wondered if anyone else had been and suggests a 'must
see'.

For example, how long does it take to see the main or important
features?

Mike
Taking Joan for a Birthday outing.


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GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT GROWING OLD :
You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking
chair that you once got from a roller coaster.

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Mike wrote in message
For example, how long does it take to see the main or important
features?

Mike
Taking Joan for a Birthday outing.

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The garden is lovely, lots of surprising niches, but you should be able to
see it all easily in an afternoon. Having said that, I didn't do the house
tour.
Where you may well need plenty of time, is in the nursery........ lots of
plants for sale, which are all grown in the garden, and therefore qualify in
Christopher Lloyd's book as "good-doers". Very tempting ;-)

Marina

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Mike wrote in message
For example, how long does it take to see the main or important
features?

Mike
Taking Joan for a Birthday outing.

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The garden is lovely, lots of surprising niches, but you should be able to
see it all easily in an afternoon. Having said that, I didn't do the house
tour.
Where you may well need plenty of time, is in the nursery........ lots of
plants for sale, which are all grown in the garden, and therefore qualify in
Christopher Lloyd's book as "good-doers". Very tempting ;-)

Marina


Thanks for that Marina. I have actually arranged to meet Christopher
Lloyd and hopefully he will be pointing out some 'specials' but thanks
for the tips, they are the sort of things we were looking for.

Also been given the tip, that if you as CL the name of a plant or 'What
is that?', he expects you to have pen and paper handy to take down the
names, 'you're not serious if you don't write the names down' my
daughter told me :-))

Plants for sale? Good job I have a massive boot on the car ;-)

Pen and Paper

Video Camera.

Digital Camera.
All will be charged up and ready to go :-))

Mike

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eserve.co.uk writes


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The garden is lovely, lots of surprising niches, but you should be able to
see it all easily in an afternoon. Having said that, I didn't do the house
tour.
Where you may well need plenty of time, is in the nursery........ lots of
plants for sale, which are all grown in the garden, and therefore qualify in
Christopher Lloyd's book as "good-doers". Very tempting ;-)

Marina


Quickie question. In general, is Great Dixter on the level? I am OK on
the flat or a few steps, but General Arthur Itis takes it out on my
knees if I do toooooooooooooo much up and downing.

Mike

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Mike wrote in message
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Quickie question. In general, is Great Dixter on the level? I am OK on
the flat or a few steps, but General Arthur Itis takes it out on my
knees if I do toooooooooooooo much up and downing.

Mike

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There are some steps, but only a few in each set, and those are not too
steep IIRC. I think that there are alternative slopes too for wheelchairs,
in some places.
When are you going? Let us know how you get on ;-)

Marina