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|title=Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter

|author=Stephen Anderton

|reviewer=Sue Magee

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=256

|publisher=Pimlico

|date=March 2011

|isbn=978-1845950965

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When I first had a garden I did what I always do with a new project: I turned to books to see what help I could find. There were any number which told me how to do the basics and what I needed to know to make the right decisions. It was rather like cooking only with a few more uncertainties thrown in. Then there were the books which didn't really bother about the basics but provided limitless inspiration. At the head of these writers, if not way out in front, was Christopher Lloyd who gardened throughout his life at Great Dixter, producing colour combinations which stunned and probably one of the greatest gardens of the twentieth century.

You can find out more about Lutyens and his work [[The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme by Gavin Stamp|here]]. For another biography of a twentieth century icon we can recommend [[The Surprising Life of Constance Spry by Sue Shephard]].

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