Sissinghurst: The Dream Garden

In SISSINGHURST: A DREAM GARDEN Tim Richardson reveals the magic and the mystery of these world-famous and most evocative English gardens, famous for their horticulture, their creators and the realisation of personal dreams.

Step inside the world's most famous garden and understand the strength of its attraction in this beautiful and fascinating study.

Since is was bought and transformed by writer Vita Sackville West and diplomat Harold Nicholson in the 1930s, this garden has captured imaginations with its unique and intricate design.

This unforgettable garden of rooms is influential today for its design, its exuberant planting, and its effect on visitors as a complete garden experience.

Author Tim Richardson explores its power and its magic, explaining the nuances of its evolution and shows **how we can all enjoy it today.

Beautiful photographs transport you to the National Trust property, showcasing it in all its brilliance.

‘Tim Richardson brings the history and developments — including an area newly designed by Dan Pearson — to life on the page; his words are perfectly accompanied by Jason Ingram’s glorious photographs.’ 

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

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.

Résumé

Step inside Sissinghurst, the world's most famous garden, and understand the strength of its attraction in this beautiful, once in a generation study.

Since is was bought and transformed by writer Vita Sackville-West and diplomat Harold Nicolson in the 1930s, Sissinghurst has captured imaginations with its unique and intricate design. From first sight of the Castle Tower to the magic of the world-famous White Garden, this garden of rooms and experiences, memories and emotions is the most evocative of places. Today, it is one the National Trust's most popular destinations and, under the lead of head gardener Troy Scott Smith, Sissinghurst is influential for its design, its exuberant planting, and its effect on visitors as a complete garden experience. Its fascination endures and matures, captivating with its intimacy, romance and history.

In this definitive book, Tim Richardson explores the power and magic of Sissinghurst, explaining the nuances of its evolution and showing how we can all enjoy it today. With beautiful photography from Jason Ingram and a foreword from leading garden designer Dan Pearson, this is the must-have book for any garden lover. 

Contenu
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