The gardening has taken a brief sabbatical while we have been away. A mini break in Rye presented the perfect opportunity to visit Sissinghurst in the Kent Weald lands. This was our first visit and what a treat, apart from the crowds! There could hardly be a more different site and situation to our Pennine plot. Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson have left a marvellous garden legacy which is currently under a sensitive restoration, I think all gardeners are like magpies in that we love to collect ideas from others and being a sucker for colour schemes I was thrilled to see the work of a true master of horticulture. The formal borders are so different from our own but the variety of spaces is something that we can strive to create for ourselves.
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