A framed plan drawing showing the various stages of construction in the making of the gardens at Sissinghurst castle.

A framed plan drawing showing the various stages of construction in the making of the gardens at Sissinghurst castle. Stock Photo
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paul cox / Alamy Stock Photo

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C57FB1

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50 MB (2.6 MB Compressed download)

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5120 x 3413 px | 43.3 x 28.9 cm | 17.1 x 11.4 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

5 July 2011

Location:

Sissinghurst Castle

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Sissinghurst's garden was created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardening writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. Sackville-West was a writer on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group[1] 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, the walls being high clipped hedges and many pink brick walls.