When Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West first saw Sissinghurst ... its moated Tudor buildings were mostly derelict and the garden was a rubbish dump. Their teenage son Nigel told them ...

On a spring day in 1930, the writer Vita Sackville-West drove with her friend Dorothy ... ‘It was Sleeping Beauty’s Garden: but a garden crying out for rescue.’ It wasn’t the farmhouse ...

Vita Sackville-West died 50 years ago this month. What was it about her unique style that inspires gardeners today? The gardens at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent created by Vita Sackville-West and ...

All that is about to change – the grille has been removed, steps reinstated and the Phlox Garden, created by the castle's former owners Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in 1932 ...

A photo posted by on The landlords were, of course, Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, whose names today are synonymous with Sissinghurst Castle, which they purchased in 1930. But, for 15 years ...

Vita Sackville West's white garden at Sissinghurst in England is world famous. Here is her own description of the plants in it: "It is divided into square beds by paths edged with lavender and box.

Happily, Raven (The Cutting Garden), another gardener in the Sackville-West family (she’s married to Vita’s grandson), meets every challenge in this laudable book. Sackville-West’s plantings ...

So Vita Sackville-West and Britain’s working class might ... beautiful and lavish garden, and see any difference in their makers’ desires, other than scale.

The women of the Bloomsbury group found solace and creative inspiration in their green spaces, from the Italian gardens of Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West’s color-themed castle grounds.