Sissinghurst An Unfinished History
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Sissinghurst
Author | : Adam Nicolson |
Publsiher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2010-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780771051326 |
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A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson on the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended? Has its success over the last thirty years come at a price? Is Sissinghurst everything it could be? The story of this piece of land, an estate in the Weald of Kent, is told here for the first time from the very beginning. Adam Nicolson, who now lives there, has uncovered remarkable new findings about its history as a medieval manor and great sixteenth-century house, from the days of its decline as an eighteenth-century prison to a flourishing Victorian farm and on to the creation, by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, of a garden in a weed-strewn wreck. Alongside his recovery of the past, Adam Nicolson wanted something else: for the land at Sissinghurst to live again, to become the landscape of orchards, cattle, fruit and sheep he remembered from his boyhood.Could that living frame of a mixed farm be brought back to what had turned into monochrome fields of chemicalised wheat and oilseed rape? Against the odds, he was going to try. Adam Nicolson has always been a passionate writer about landscape and buildings, but this is different. This is the place he wanted to make good again, reconnecting garden, farm and land. More than just a personal biography of a place, this book is the story of taking an inheritance and steering it in a new direction, just as an entrepreneur might take hold of a company, or just as all of us might want to take our dreams and make them real.
Sissinghurst
Author | : Adam Nicolson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Family farms |
ISBN | : OCLC:1256505970 |
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Sissinghurst An Unfinished History Text only
Author | : Adam Nicolson |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2015-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780007380725 |
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A fascinating account from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, on the history of Nicolson’s own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst.
Sissinghurst an Unfinished History
Author | : Adam Nicolson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Family farms |
ISBN | : OCLC:1340211253 |
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Sissinghurst
Author | : Jane Brown |
Publsiher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1994-06 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 0297833502 |
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The celebrated garden at Sissinghurst, created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson, has an unsurpassed romantic atmosphere. This book records the garden in all its seasons and moods, as well as the hosts of special plants and the inventive planting schemes.
Gardening at Sissinghurst
Author | : Tony Lord |
Publsiher | : White Lion Publishing |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106015580977 |
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Describes design, development and maintenance of the garden at Sissinghurst created by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson, one of the most visited in Britain.
Vita Sackville West s Sissinghurst
Author | : Vita Sackville-West,Sarah Raven |
Publsiher | : Virago Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1844088960 |
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A lavish hardback celebrating one of Britain's best-loved gardens.
Sissinghurst The Dream Garden
Author | : Tim Richardson |
Publsiher | : Frances Lincoln |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9780711261631 |
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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.