Wealden Times | WT197 | July 2018 | Interiors supplement inside

Garden
compost heaps, ripened on the warm and cosy piles of
meadow plants and grass from previous seasons. They
will be gathered in before the frosts arrive and are then
clustered in groups in the house and the porch, posed, as
if waiting for a still life painter. They are ornamental, but,
like all the vegetables grown here, are completely edible too
and used as meal ingredients for the staff and visitors.
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Winter architecture
The garden is shut to the public in winter, but I can
imagine that this is when the architectural shapes of shrubs,
trees and evergreens come to the fore. The grasses will
stand unbowed until spring, perennial seed-heads and
teasels silhouetted against them in the low winter light.
Cotoneaster horizontalis, so often overlooked or
used in dull corners in other gardens, is shown off
here as a focal point, with its zig-zag of herringbone
stems overlapping into a sculptural mound.
Julian’s book affords us the pleasure of some out of season
glimpses of the garden while it is sleeping, frost enhancing its
curves, mist settling like a soft blanket across the meadows
and the odd poignant leftover from the summer hanging
poetically, as if it has been waiting for Julian’s camera all year.
For the full ‘Dixter effect’ you really do need to visit more
than once, you will find something different and interesting
every month of the year, so I recommend a season ticket.
If you are unable to get there, or would simply like a linen
bound companion, Julian’s sensitively honed portrait is an
atmospheric evocation of an iconic and dynamic garden.
For details of Jo Arnell’s courses and workshops look at
hornbrookmanor.co.uk or call 01233 861149
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Est 1909
Tel: 01634 290033
For further information visit : www.passmores.co.uk
Winter
Photographs by Julian Anderson
Julian’s book is being crowd funded. To
support this project please visit kickstarter.com/
projects/1006138048/great-dixter-portrait-of-a-garden
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