Vita Sackville West As Garden Designer

Sackville west and nicolson designed bold east west views and paths across the garden often punctuated with statuary a technique they would later refine at sissinghurst.

Vita sackville west as garden designer. Vita victoria sackville west was the daughter of the 3rd baron sackville. The couple bought sissinghurst castle in 1930 a ruined elizabethan manor house and spent years creating a. She was a successful novelist poet and journalist as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist.

It is a prime example of the arts and crafts style well maintained by the national trust. For opening hours and prices to visit see sissinghurst castle garden. She was born in 1892 at knole house in kent.

She once defined her approach as profusion even extravagance and exuberance. Vita sackville west and harold nicholson were both homosexual though they had children. Vita was working on her hawthornden prize winning epic poem the land.

She s known for her private life and as a master gardener perhaps as much as her literature. Born at knole park a 365 room ancestral home her writing career was launched with the publication of poems of east and west 1917. Vita sackville west march 9 1892 june 2 1962 was a british poet novelist and garden designer.

She enjoyed his admiration affection and critique until his wits were outmatched by a more formidable mind. 11 ideas to steal from a moonlight garden. Vita sackville west on her garden at sissinghurst 1950 on our weekly delve into the archive we revisit a 1950 feature in which vita sackville west writes about the creation of her garden at sissinghurst which she made from scratch together with her husband harold nicolson.

And then cut right through the middle of them with a path running north to south with a scented rose walk giving stunning views across the whole garden. In this way sackville west kept your eye moving constantly on to the next thing. Vita sackville west died 50 years ago this month.