Garden Trips: Sissinghurst

It's cold outside. Snow is everywhere. Schools are closed. Let's go somewhere fun!

Sissinghurst



Castle Garden is the famed garden of Vita Sackville-West and her husband Sir Harold Nicholson. It is now part of the National Trust scheme (as the British say) as the taxes due upon the deaths of Sackville-West and Nicholson would have caused the sale and loss of the garden(s). Sir Harold made arrangements with the National Trust to take over the properties upon his death (and after Vita's) so that the gardens would remain. We were told their son still lives on the property in a home on one corner.

It was crowded on the May day in 2006 that we arrived. Lots of avid gardeners eager to see everything and, in some areas, it was a tight squeeze. Nonetheless, it was a wonderful English spring day and the showers that came out later didn't deter a single one of us.

Isn't this fun?



Or this?



But, I know what you really want to see are some beautiful flowers:










How about some long views:











I hope you enjoyed our little tour! There's still more to come (another time), some views from the tower (you can see so far!), trilliums (I love trilliums!) and assorted other views.