Sissinghurst Castle Garden
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at Sissinghurst in the Weald of Kent in England, was created by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. It is among the
Aerial view in 2009: "The most famous twentieth century garden in England"
Model displayed at Sissinghurst depicting Sir Richard Baker's house circa 1560
Sackville-West's portrait by Philip de László hanging in the Big Room of the West Range
The statuary at Sissinghurst was not always of the highest quality. Anne Scott-James describes this one of Dionysus as looking "particularly depressed".
Cottage garden
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The cottage garden is a distinct garden style that uses informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants. English in origin, it depends on grace a
Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany.
Vernacular thatched cottages (built in 1812–1816) in Woburn Street, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, surrounded by garden.
Restored Gertrude Jekyll border at Manor House, Upton Grey, Hampshire
Helen Allingham watercolor showing elite peonies and modern delphiniums in an idealised cottage garden, 1909