Transition Town Hastings and Great Dixter Create Coastal Garden with Custom Gardenscape Blends
In October 2025, we supplied a series of five custom blends to Great Dixter House and Gardens and Transition Town Hastings, for a new community coastal garden project.
Local people and a team of experts from Great Dixter created Hasting's first "living laboratory" on the seafront. Yesterday, we visited to see how the project has come along since and it's looking great just a few months on!
Our custom blends included: a Shingle mix, a Sharp Sand and Horticultural Grit mix, and three different ratio blends of Shingle, Sharp Sand, LECA, Peat Free Compost and Topsoil.
“This pilot initiative will play a key role in shaping the wider landscape design for the Town Deal-funded Hastings Public Realm and Green Connections project, and the team will be trialling a new kind of climate-resilient, biodiversity-rich planting scheme, designed especially for our harsh seaside conditions. This planting scheme trial will help test future landscaping and biodiversity approaches across the town centre project.
About Transistion Town Hastings
'Transition Town Hastings (TTH) is part of the global Transition Network, a movement that has been growing around the world since 2005.
It’s about communities stepping up to address the global challenges we face by starting local. By coming together, we are able to crowd-source solutions. We seek to nurture a caring culture, one focused on supporting each other, both as groups or as wider communities.
In practice, we are reclaiming the economy, sparking entrepreneurship, reimagining work, re-skilling ourselves and weaving webs of connection and support. It’s an approach that has spread now to over 50 countries, in thousands of groups: in towns, villages, cities, universities, and schools.'
Find out more about the project here: transitiontownhastings.org.uk
About Great Dixter House
A vibrant, daring, and immersive garden with a 15th century house restored by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Leading the way in ornamental gardening, gardening for biodiversity, and horticultural education. Created by the great gardener and garden writer Christopher Lloyd, OBE, VMH.
To find out more, visit greatdixter.co.uk