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Sissinghurst Kent - (The magnificent garden of Vita Sackville-West) - an English Village (UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Its main claim to fame is Sissinghurst Castle, not a real fortified castle with moat, but a very large house built in the early 1500's by Sir Richard Baker. Sissinghurst village is a very pretty Kent village and the high street is very attractive. Sissinghurst Castle is a magnificent elizabethan manor house, whose garden was transformed in the 1930's into the most gorgeous garden in Kent by Vita Sackville-West, this is a garden not to be missed. www.villagenet.co.uk /highweald/villages/sissinghurst.php   (359 words)

Sissinghurst Castle Garden The gardens are set off by a tall tower of pale pink brick which captivated Vita when she first saw Sissinghurst; she wrote some 20 books in the Tower room and it remained her sanctum until her death age 70. Sissinghurst is a sophisticated garden, with the plantings deliberately varied from one part to another. Before Sissinghurst was taken over by the National Trust, the brick and stone paths had creeping thyme and other self-sown flowers growing in them, but the number of visitors dictated otherwise and now the paths are set in concrete. www.hort.wisc.edu /mastergardener/Features/botgardens/sissinghurst/sissinghurst.htm   (3769 words)

Sissinghurst Castle Garden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sissinghurst's garden was created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardening writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. Sissinghurst's garden is one of the best-loved in the whole of the United Kingdom, drawing visitors from all over the world. For Sackville-West, Sissinghurst and its garden rooms came to be a poignant and romantic substitute for Knole, reputedly the largest house in Britain, which as the only child of Lionel, the 3rd Lord Sackville she would have inherited had she been a male, but which had passed to her uncle as the male heir. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sissinghurst_Castle_Garden   (540 words)

Burke's Backyard Archives 2004 - Sissinghurst Garden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Sissinghurst cannot be seen in its entirety except from the top of the tower. Sissinghurst has one of the finest collections of old roses in the world. Ownership of Sissinghurst was transferred to the National Trust after Vita's death in 1962. www.burkesbackyard.com.au /2004/archives/2004/burkes_backyard_in_england/sissinghurst_garden?mysource_site_extension=printer_friendly_pages   (524 words)

Sissinghurst Castle Garden Kent (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Sissinghurst Castle was once a splendid mansion built for Sir Richard Baker in the mid-16th century. Over the next hundred years Sissinghurst slowly degenerated and would probably be a ruin today if it had not been rescued in 1930 by Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson. Sissinghurst is a sophisticated garden where rare plants are neighbours to traditional cottage garden flowers. www.touruk.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /gardens/gardenskent_siss.htm   (656 words)

Making a Mark: Autumn at Sissinghurst Sissinghurst Castle in Kent closes its house and gardens to the public a week on Sunday and does not reopen until March. I visited the garden late on Monday afternoon when it was very quiet and sketched the sixteenth century tower, in which Vita Sackville West had her writing room, and the grounds from the bank beyond the moat at the back of the gardens. Sissinghurst can be very limiting as to set-ups because they won't allow a lot of things (easels/tripods/chairs) into the gardens because of health and safety concerns as the gardens are so popular. makingamark.blogspot.com /2006/10/autumn-at-sissinghurst.html   (795 words)

UK Garden Designer - Garden Design and Landscaping - Articles - Kirk Johnson's articles about Sissinghurst Castle. Part Two: Sissinghurst was not the first garden to be created by Vita Sackville-West and her husband, Harold Nicolson. Part Twelve: Sissinghurst's Moat Walk is one of the most restrained parts of the garden, but it has a complex design. Part Fifteen: The curved wall at the western end of Sissinghurst's rose garden raises the garden to the status of a garden room of the finest pedigree. www.ukgardendesigner.com /article2.htm   (380 words)

Sissinghurst Castle - Part One Sissinghurst Castle survived the Civil War intact, and while Sir John was fined by Parliament for supporting Charles 1, he remained in possession of his ancestral home until his death in 1653. It was during the period of 1756 to 1753, when Sissinghurst was used as a prison during the Seven Years' War that most of the damage took place. It was also during this period that the manor house became known as Sissinghurst Castle, because it was used as a stronghold to contain French prisoners of war. www.suite101.com /article.cfm/668/64909   (516 words)

Sissinghurst Castle - Part Eleven This is the eleventh in a series of articles about the gardens that Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson created at Sissinghurst Castle. The Cottage Garden and the garden next to the Priest's House are the oldest of Sissinghurst's "garden rooms"; the paths of both were laid in 1931. Sissinghurst's Cottage Garden was always filled with the latest hybrids and newly introduced species True cottage plants were more likely to be planted with the roses in the garden next to the Priest's House or in the later Rose Garden because the colors harmonized with old roses. www.suite101.com /article.cfm/668/77625   (408 words)

TIMEeurope Magazine | European Journey 2004 | Refuge Its simplicity of structure is combined with a gentle and painterly eye, a drifting of colors and forms, a playing between precision and relaxation, which is the English sensibility at its best: neither tight nor careless, to the highest standards, but for everyone. People make their pilgrimage to Sissinghurst in order to enjoy a dream of English perfection, half natural, half cultural, a place that shows how beautiful the world might be. It is tempting to think that Sissinghurst is most itself when the people have left, when the gates are finally shut on a summer evening and the garden sighs to itself, like a host after the last of his guests has gone. www.time.com /time/europe/pilgrim/sissinghurst_2.html   (1172 words)

Sissinghurst Castle Then In 1930 Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson took over what was left of the building, over the years they lovingly restored the house and the gardens. Sissinghurst Castle is now world celebrated for its gardens that each have their own colour scheme and not to be missed any time of the year. The local hotel in Sissinghurst is the London Beach Golf Hotel. www.londonvisions.com /outsidelondon_sissinghurst_castle.htm   (121 words)

Sissinghurst Castle Garden Sissinghurst Garden is in the Weald of Kent, near Cranbrook, Goudhurst and Tenterden. Sissinghurst - portrait of a garden, by Jane Brown and others. Please note this Sissinghurst website is privately owned and not connected with the National Trust - the author is however a keen member and would encourage readers to join). www.invectis.co.uk /sissing   (961 words)

Sissinghurst Garden - a Gardens Guide review Sissinghurst garden is a prime example of the Arts and Crafts style. Vita Sackville-West, a poet, a garden writer and Harold’s wife, took responsibility for the planting at Sissinghurst garden. The historical importance of Sissinghurst Castle Garden comes from its role in transmitting Gertrude Jekyll’s design philosophy to a host of visitors. www.gardenvisit.com /g/sis1.htm   (162 words)

Sissinghurst Castle Garden Sissinghurst was originally the site of a stone manor house built in the middle ages, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I it was replaced by a splendid mansion built by the Baker family. The highlights of Sissinghurst are the Rose Garden which is the best known, but is at its peak for little more than the month of June. Sissinghurst Castle Garden can be found one mile east of Sissinghurst village on the A262 near Cranbrook Kent. www.places-to-go.org.uk /Sissinghurst_Castle_garden.htm   (367 words)

Sissinghurst Tennis Club Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Sissinghurst Tennis Club is a small, friendly club with a growing membership. Set up by a group of friends in 1981 and located off the Jubilee fields in the Kent villiage of Sissinghurst, it offers two hard tennis courts, a modest (we use that word advisedly) clubhouse and a group of committed tennis players of all ages who do not take themselves too seriously. We aim to provide a welcoming, unintimidating atmosphere for starters and old pros alike - there is no "playing in", no dress codes, no cliques. dspace.dial.pipex.com /prod/dialspace/town/green/abh34/sissinghurst   (144 words)

Sissinghurst Castle and places to stay nearby Sissinghurst Castle is one of the most famous and delightful gardens in the British Isles. It was created by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson who transformed the ruins of this Elizabethan mansion in the 1930s. The Garden at Sissinghurst Castle is divided into a series of rooms filled with informal arrangements of plants around a theme: the White Garden, the Purple Border, the Rose Garden, the Herb Garden, the Lime Walk, and the Cottage Garden. www.greatbritishgardens.co.uk /sissinghurst_castle.htm   (214 words)

Sissinghurst Castle - Part Six This is the sixth in a series of articles about the gardens that Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson created at Sissinghurst Castle. Vita wrote a regular gardening column in the Observer; in her article for the fifth of july 1955, Vita described her plantings in the White Garden: "There is a white underplanting of various artemisias, including the old aromatic Southernwood; the silvery Cineraria maritima, the grey santolina or Cotton Lavender; and the creeping Achillea ageratifolia. The gardeners at Sissinghurst have continued to try new plants and new varieties of plants that Vita grew; the 'Iceberg' roses that were planted the year after Vita's death being the most famous and controversial example. www.suite101.com /article.cfm/garden_design/71322   (566 words)

Sissinghurst Castle - Part Ten This is the tenth in a series of articles about the gardens that Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson created at Sissinghurst Castle. By the time that the Nicolson's bought Sissinghurst, the southern arm of the moat had been filled in and the wall was almost completely buried under rubbish and brambles. This is partially because they would have had to tear down a toolshed, but it was also because they didn't want to remove the old fruit trees that they found in the orchard. www.suite101.com /article.cfm/garden_design/76530   (436 words)

National Trust | Sissinghurst Castle Garden | Photo gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) View along the Lime Walk in the garden at Sissinghurst with pleached lime trees, flower borders and yew hedges, in spring. View of the rose garden and Elizabethan prospect tower in the background at Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent. The White Garden and Priest's House at Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent. www.nationaltrust.org.uk /main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-sissinghurstcastlegarden/w-sissinghurstcastlegarden-photo_gallery.htm   (191 words)

Sissinghurst Gardens - a trip aboard the British Pullman carriages of the Orient Express   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Three course lunch with champagne and wine on outward journey, coach transfer and admission to Sissinghurst gardens, cream tea in restaurant, return coach journey to London. Your journey takes you to Sissinghurst, where Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson transformed a few derelict buildings and a near wilderness into an imaginable and beautiful series of gardens, with the Tudor tower and two cottages as a centrepiece. At Sissinghurst, you can browse around the gardens at your leisure for around an hour before enjoying a cream tea in the Barn Restaurant. www.21club.com /web/bp/journeys/3_1878.jsp   (341 words)

Artemis' Photos: SISSINGHURST CASTLE, KENT Sissinghurst Castle was the home of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and is now a Sissinghurst remains for me, a special site of pilgrimage. A view of Sissinghurst Tower from the somewhat overgrown lawn full of buttercups. jrong.tripod.com /photos_sissinghurst.html   (262 words)

Sissinghurst Castle Farm : B & B adjacent to Sissinghurst Sissinghurst Castle Farm : B & B adjacent to Sissinghurst The house is beautifully furnished with stunning views of Sissinghurst Castle Garden and the adjacent parkland. Although we don't serve evening meals, The Three Chimneys at Biddenden is a delightful 20 minute walk across the farm or Rankins restaurant in Sissinghurst is 15 minutes away on foot. www.kent-esites.co.uk /page.html?SiteID=sissinghurstcastlefarm&View=5   (142 words)

Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - White Garden - 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - White Garden - 2 The white rose in the centre of the garden Rosa Mulliganii flowers in early July. The White Garden late on an early August evening - the Delos can be seen in the background. www.invectis.co.uk /sissing/sswhite2.htm   (65 words)

BookPage Gardening Review: Gardening at Sissinghurst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Gardeners will continue to worship at the Sissinghurst shrine for years to come, and with good reason. Lord, the Gardens Advisor to England's National Trust and winner of the Garden Writers' Guild Award in 1994, brings Sissinghurst to life. Behind Sissinghurst (the most viewed garden in England -- yearly) is the successful collaboration between the husband and wife team of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West. www.bookpage.com /9607bp/gardening/gardeningatsissinghurst.html   (286 words)

The PUBS of Kent - The Bull Inn, Sissinghurst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) The PUBS of Kent - The Bull Inn, Sissinghurst On the main road through Sissinghurst lies The Bull Inn. It has a priest's hole and dungeons which were probably used at a later date by smugglers and most likely by the notorious Hawkhurst Gang who roamed this area. digiserve.com /peter/pubs/pubs-tbs.htm   (148 words)

Sissinghurst-Castle_Garden (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) The Cottage Garden at Sissinghurst is planted with bright reds and yellows England's most romantic garden created by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson in the 1930s from the remains of a moated manor house. Sissinghurst is an English Heritage Grade I Listed Garden and is owned by the National Trust www.geocities.com.cob-web.org:8888 /churchgates0/Sissinghurst-Castle_Garden.html   (77 words)

Garden Tours of Sissinghurst, Great Dixter and Kew Gardens (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Sissinghurst and Great Dixter and the most popular garden destinations in Kent. The National Trust organises several coaches a day from Staplehurst Station to Sissinghurst Garden (see timetable). If you can tear yourself away from Sissinghurst early enough in the day, take another taxi for another 12 miles and see Great Dixter. www.gardenvisit.com.cob-web.org:8888 /garden_tour/garden_tours_sissinghurst.htm   (295 words)

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