Sarah of Travel With Me posted on Sissinghurst for the LACP this week, and I recommend reading her post for its beauty and for the background history of the house and grounds. For species and extraordianry flower knowledge, I recommend you go to Jude’s beautiful site. As I visited some weeks ago, I had prepared a post for today – but this garden is well worth visiting more than once.
Sissinghurst in Kent is a famous English garden, with a series of ‘garden rooms’, each filled with different planting schemes and unique designs. This garden is a result of Harold Nicolson’s design and the plantings of his wife, author Vita Sackville-West.
It was such a treat to visit a place where creative cooperation showed such magnificent results. I have read several works of Virginia Woolf, and knew she had an intimate relation with Vita Sackville-West. I can imagine they must have enjoyed each others company as creative souls. I could almost see them walking together here, arm in arm through the gardens.
I loved the different ”garden rooms”. Maybe mostly the white garden and the yellow garden.
This is the view from the top of the tower, where the different ”rooms ” are clearly showing. And Vita Sackville-West’s writing room in the tower was extremely difficult to photograph, as it was in the middle of the narrow staircases and only a tiny platform to land on while other visitors were passing by.
I hope you enjoyed Sissinghurst once again!
Leya 
A wonderful evocation of the beauty of this garden! Thank you for linking to my post but you really didn’t need to as yours is really comprehensive 🙂 I’m glad you included some photos of the views from the tower. I was going to but decided I already had too many photos in the post, however now I sort-of wish I had!
Thank you, Sarah! But you had so many interesting facts too –
Ah, Sissinghurst! I do love that garden with its ‘rooms’….. must dig out some more images from my archives. This is a brilliant post, A C
Thank you, Sue!
I would love to visit this amazing garden and slowly wander through the rooms absorbing the beauty. I never will so to wander through all your beautiful photos is a joy. Thank you Ann-Christine for taking me on a virtual tour.
I am happy to do so – and I hope you brought your husband too!
Beautiful gardens and flowers.
Thank you, Marie! One of the highlights on our trip!
Beautiful!
Thank you, Anne!
What a lovely series of garden rooms. This old and rather wild-looking is some places garden would be my idea of heaven to walk through or sit a while. I couldn’t imagine looking after it though. I’d be over-pruning and over-tidying it up. Just my obsessive neat and tidy nature I guess.
(that’s why Japanese gardens are more my style).
I don’t remember seeing this garden when I was travelling around the U.K. in the 1970s, so thanks for sharing. 🙂
If you ever go back there, you would love a visit, I am sure.
What a beautiful place! From the old brick in the walls and building to the flowers!
♥ Blew me away!
What a joy to see and visit this garden through your beautiful images, Ann-Christine. I loved the various ”rooms.” I was surprised to see an Eryngo in the garden.
Thank you, Egidio. I love Eryngium and would love to have Miss Wilmott’s Ghost here. Unfortunately they don’t agree with me it seems…
As Margaret said I too posted a few photos from this garden in response to your recent challenge. I see you also had some dark clouds on your visit, but you captured some great views from the tower which I did not climb. It is interesting to see the difference in the planting from early May – then the beautiful clematis on the curved wall was not even showing! I like the purple borders, and here I love the last two photos with the dark poppies (possibly Lauren’s Grape) and that gorgeous almost black lily.
I just opened it! Thank you for your expert comments – so grateful for your knowledgeable posts! May I link to yor post as well?
Oh, yes please.
Done. Thank you again!
As Margaret said, Jude’s post is lovely too but us ‘northerners’ have never been 🤗🩷
Not too late…♥
My focus is elsewhere, Ann-Christine, but you never know… 😁❤️
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Sarah, Jude and Sue, to name but three have all posted from Sissinghurst this week And every one of you is out to prove how much I am missing out by not having been yet.
It’s never too late…♥
I know! Very motivated now.
It’s a long time since I visited here and am glad your post was able to take me there again! 🙋♂️
I am happy to share and so glad you enjoyed it!
Fabulous garden and house
Yes, I was charmed to bits.
My grandmother, name of Baldock, grew up in the priests house with her brothers and parents in the last century, so I have many memories, although this was before the Nicholson time. Although I do have a letter from Vita Nicholson to my granmother, then Mrs. Relf, one of my proud possessions, My grandmother left the area before the gardens were constructed and the family story tells that she was working in the diary at the estate as a young girl. I have a few photos of the earlier days i my possession. Thank you for mention, I grew up in London, but have now been living in Switzerland with my Swiss husband since 55 years.
Thank you for interesting facts! The world is small, isn’t it? At least we say so in Sweden. And you have letters and photos from those days – precious indeed. I guess you keep them well and sometimes take them out for a read…History they are. Magical.
Beautiful gardens!
Thank you, Angeline – rhey make me feel good. I guess more than me!
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Dear Ann-Christine
every time we go south we visit Sissinghurst. We love this garden as well and can recommend a visit at any time of the year.
But we find Vita Sackville-West’s literature has not aged aged as well as the garden.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thank you, and good to know about the literature – I was planning yo borrow one of them. Maybe I will anyway.