Sunday 31 May 2009

Sissinghurst




"Sissinghurst's garden was created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West, poet
and gardening writer, and her husband
Harold
Nicholson
, author and diplomat. Sackville-West was a
writer on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group
who found her greatest popularity in the weekly columns she
contributed as gardening correspondent of
The
Observer
, which incidentally – for she never touted
it – made her own garden famous. Sissinghurst's garden
is one of the best-loved in the
whole of the United Kingdom
, drawing visitors from all over the world. The garden itself is
designed as a series of "rooms", each with a different character of colour
and/or theme, divided by high clipped hedges and pink brick walls."

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-sissinghurstcastlegarden/

2 comments:

  1. Loved your Sissinghurst pictures - especially to see the vegetable garden about which I have heard so much! Since you have added your name to my followers list, no doubt you saw mine taken some time ago in early spring. I will follow your blogging!

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  2. Hi Margaret,
    Thanks...pleased you enjoyed the photo's. I came across your blog and Sissinghurst images when I was searching for a link to post with the photographs...am pleased I did! Will follow your blog with interest...and enjoyed your other two blog as well!

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