The Adventurous Gardener

A brilliant gardener and a brilliant writer – Monty DonChristopher Lloyd ranks with Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West as one of the major figures in twentieth-century British gardening … he was known and respected throughout the world as the voice of serious gardening * THE TIMES *He was the best informed, liveliest and most innovative gardening writer of our times * GUARDIAN *He was the most interesting plantsman I have ever known – Alan TitchmarshChristopher Lloyd taught us that we don’t necessarily have to do things very differently - just better, and with all our heart * SPECTATOR *British horticulture is blessed with many inspired plantsmen and elegant writers, but rarely do those qualities combine as seamlessly as in Christopher Lloyd * INDEPENDENT *

Christopher Lloyd spent years lovingly developing and refining his celebrated gardens at Great Dixter in Sussex. Throughout his career he was unparalleled in gardening journalism, writing for many publications. In 1979 the Royal Horticultural Society conferred on him its highest honour, the VICTORIA MEDAL OF HONOUR. He received the OBE for services to horticulture in 2000 and died in 2006.