EAN: 9781844088966

VITA SACKVILLE WESTS SISSINGHURST - SARAH RAVEN...

Sissinghurst  discovered and transformed in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West and Harold
Nicolson  is one of the most inspirational gardens in the world. It remains renowned for Harold
Nicolson's architectural design and the vibrant  romantic planting by Vita Sackville-West.
Every year it is visited by over 150 000 people. From 1946 to 1957  Vita Sackville-West wrote a
weekly column for the Observer about her gardening ideas  drawing on her experiments and
experiences at Sissinghurst. Now  Sarah Raven who is married to Vita's grandson Adam Nicolson 
takes Vita's writings and adds her own  to tell us the story of this wonderful garden. This
delightful book  illustrated with over 150 black-and-white photos and twenty-four pages of
colour - many never seen before - describes the vision and the craft that has made Sissinghurst
a place of vitality and beauty. Vita Sackville-West's feeling for colour and texture  her
belief that gardens can be places of excitement and calm  her knowledge of exotic species and
her appreciation of the ordinary  everyday plants are still of great interest and relevance
today. She loved daisies  cobnuts  the wildflower seedlings that suddenly appeared in
flowerbeds. Her favourite roses could 'sweep me quite unexpectedly back to those dusky
mysterious hours in an Oriental storehouse  where the rugs and carpets of Isfahan and Bokhara
and Samarkand were unrolled in their dim but sumptuous colouring and richness of texture for
our slow delight . . . Rich as a fig broken open  soft as a ripened peach  flecked as an
apricot  coral as a pomegranate  bloomy as a bunch of grapes.' Everything you could wish to
know about a garden is here.

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