The gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent were created in the 1930's by which poet and gardening writer on the fringes of the 'Bloomsbury Group'?
Sissinghurst Castle Garden Sissinghurst Castle Garden Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at Sissinghurst in the Weald of Kent in England, was created in the early 1930s by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. It is among the most famous gardens in England and is designated a Grade I listed structure. The garden comprises a series of ten "rooms", and was one of the earliest examples of this gardening style. Over seventy years after Vita and Harold created "a garden where none was", Sissinghurst remains a major influence on horticultural thought and practice. The origins of the present castle
Sissinghurst Castle Garden proved unsuccessful, as did his subsequent political career, which saw him move from Oswald Mosley's New Party to Clement Attlee's Labour Party. Throughout, he maintained a detailed diary. His entry for 4 April 1930, records, "Vita telephones to say she has seen the ideal house – a place in Kent, near Cranbrook, a sixteenth-century castle". Vita and Harold found Sissinghurst in April 1930, after Dorothy Wellesley, their near neighbour and a former lover of Vita's, saw the estate for sale. They had become increasingly concerned by threats from encroaching development to their property Long Barn, near Sevenoaks, Kent. Their offer