The life and loves of a time-poor plantsman
How fortunate that my first visit to Sissinghurst this year should coincide with the warmest day of the spring so far. As the car bowled through the Weald of Kent the roads were fringed with sulphur-yellow catkins and golden daffodils, sparking beneath a clear blue sky. The greys and browns of winter had started […]
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How comforting – Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson had plant casualties. They were like the rest of us, after all. This amusing revelation comes thanks to The National Trust’s renewed efforts to restore some of the ebullience and gay abandon that Sissinghurst’s creators strived for when they were alive. Sissinghurst is getting real, and […]
Read MoreThe gardens of Sissinghurst Castle in Kent must be amond the best known in England, if not the whole of Europe. They are the creation of two people, Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicholson, who arrived at the property in 1930. Over a period of 32 years they worked together on this gentle masterpiece, […]
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