Sissinghurst : an unfinished history / Adam Nicolson.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Viking, c2010.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 341 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780670021734
- 0670021733
- SB466.G8 N53 2010
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SB466.G7 S44 1977 The Shell guide to gardens : the finest British and Irish gardens open to the public / | SB466.G7 S44 1989 The Shell guide to the gardens of England and Wales / | SB466.G7 S49 19-- Sezincote / | SB466.G7 S57 2010 Sissinghurst : an unfinished history / | SB466.G7 S57 2014 Sissinghurst : Vita Sackville-West and the creation of a garden / | SB466.G7 S57 2020 Sissinghurst : the dream garden / | SB466.G7 S571 1990 Sissinghurst : portrait of a garden / |
"The quest to restore a working farm at Vita Sackville-West's legendary garden"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sissinghurst -- Inheritance -- The idea -- Origins -- Testing -- Occupation -- Rejection -- Glory -- Disintegration -- Acceptance -- Admiration -- Renewal.
The grandson of Virginia Woolf's poet paramour Vita Sackville-West traces his passionate efforts to restore his family's celebrated garden, an effort that included a reinstatement of a working farm to grow food for more than 200,000 annual visitors.