Sissinghurst fascination endures and matures, captivating all through its intimate design, evocative planting, romance and history. Created in the 1930s by the famous literary and gardening partnership of Vita Sackville West and husband Harold Nicholson, this is a garden of escape, of passionate episodes, of trial and success, and more than any other garden an evocation of its owners' internal emotional landscape.

Foreword by Dan Pearson
Introduction
The Approach
Top Courtyard
Rose Garden
Spring Garden and Lime Walk
The Nuttery
Interlude: a literary garden
Herb Garden and Thyme Lawn
The Moat and Moat Walk
Cottage Garden
The Orchard
Tower Lawn
White Garden
Delos
Envoi
Index
Photography credits
Acknowledgments
 

Tim Richardson is a writer who specializes in garden and landscape design and history. He has been gardens editor at Country Life, and landscape editor at Wallpaper* magazine, and was founding editor of both the award-winning gardens magazine New Eden and Country Life Gardens. He contributes to the Daily Telegraph, House and Garden, Gardens Illustrated and Country Life. He is the author of Phaidon's The Garden Book, Vanguard Landscapes Gardens of Martha Schwartz, English Gardens of the 20th Century and Arcadian Friends: the Makers of the English Landscape Garden. He is also the author of The New English Garden (Frances Lincoln).

JASON INGRAM is an award-winning garden and food photographer. He is based in Bristol, UK, and travels widely photographing gardens, plants, food and people for magazines, books and advertising.