from ruins to gardens
July 7th, 2010
©NTPL/Penny Tweedie
When Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson found Sissinghurst, it was an Elizabethan summer palace in ruins. Now the roofless rooms and crumbling brick walls are filled with flowers. The house and gardens embodies a beautiful connection between past and present. Sackville-West and Nicolson’s grandson, Adam Nicolson, recently wrote about his unique abode and its “delicious homeliness” (in the English sense, meaning homelike, not ugly). Beyond the house and garden, there are fields of farmland. Members of the Royal Oak Foundation have free entry to this idyllic country Estate, and over 300 other historic houses in the National Trust’s repertoire.
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