The son of writer Nigel Nicolson and grandson of Vita
Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson, takes us on a personal
journey through the history of one of England's great houses
National Trust
DVD
One of Britain's most beautiful gardens in the making
Celebrated gardens designed by writer Vita Sackville-West and her
husband Harold Nicholson.
Map
Sissinghurst belongs to the National Trust. See
website for opening times and directions to Sissinghurst which is a
few miles drive from Rye. Restaurant and Coffee Shop.
Vita's Garden
Experience one of the world's most celebrated gardens,
created by writer, Vita Sackville-West and her husband, Harold
Nicholson. They created the garden around the surviving
parts of an Elizabethan mansion and you can enjoy the small
compartments with colour through the season.
Vita (Victoria Mary) Sackville-West (1892-1962) was a
prolific poet and novelist, although she is better know for her
work on gardens and her affair with Virginia Woolf. Her
grandmother was the famous Pepita, a Spanish dancer of humble
descent who had formed an illicit union with Lionel
Sackville-West, the 2nd Lord Sackville.
Books about the famous
Sissinghurst Garden
Violet & Vita.
Violet Keppel passionate and tumultuous love affair between 1918 and 1920;
they had been child-hood friends.
Vita's best selling novel with introduction by Victoria Glenndining
Portrait of a Marriage
About the marriage between the two writers, Vita
Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson The portrait is drawn partly by Vita
herself in an autobiography which she left behind at her death
in 1962 and partly by her son, Nigel
