Head Gardener of Great Dixter, one of the UK’s most famous gardens, Fergus will be talking on Succession Planting, the multi-layered planting practised throughout Great Dixter’s mixed borders using bulbs, annuals, perennials and biennials to give a long flowering season.

Fergus joined Great Dixter as Head Gardener in 1992 and worked closely with owner Christopher Lloyd as gardener and friend during an important time in the garden’s development. Now he combines his full-time, hands-on gardening role at Dixter with lecturing, writing articles, serving on Royal Horticultural Society committees and, as Chief Executive of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, moving the east Sussex garden forward in ever more exciting directions. Refreshments and delicious home-made cakes will be available from the Barr Village Tearoom after the event.

The gardens at Great Dixter.

Raffle with generous prizes in support of the Great Dixter Charitable Fund (50 %) and CHAS (50%). The event has been organised by Andrea Jones, award winning plant and garden photographer, who lives in Barr.

The event takes place at Barr Village Hall, Barr, near Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland KA26 0TL at 2.30 pm on Sunday 1 April 2012.

Tickets: £15 per person, Homemade Tea £2.50 per person. 20 % discount (on lecture ticket only) to groups of more than 5 people and residents of the Stinchar Valley and Girvan area).

Further information can be found online at www.andreajones.co.uk, including ticket booking details. Or send cheque with SAE made out to 'Alasdair Currie' and send to Alton Albany Farm, Albany Road Barr, Girvan, Ayrshire KA26 0TL