Sissinghurst Castle

British

/ ˈsɪsɪŋhɜːst /

noun

a restored Elizabethan mansion near Cranbrook in Kent: noted for the gardens laid out in the 1930s by Victoria Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

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But the stars of the garden have always been the trees, among them a magnificent 400-year-old mulberry, five magnolias and two figs Rumary grew from cuttings taken from Vita Sackville-West’s garden at Sissinghurst Castle.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2021

I had wanted to go to Sissinghurst Castle for decades, ever since my first editor, Harry Ford, proudly gave me a copy of a memoir he was publishing, by the son of Sackville-West and Nicolson.

From New York Times • May 9, 2017

Vita Sackville-West's wedding skirt and her Fortuny gown at her home, Sissinghurst Castle.

From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2013

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