Sissinghurst. Portrait of a Garden. Yale University Press

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Sissinghurst. Portrait of a Garden. Yale University PressJane Brown. This famously romantic British garden was first created by the writer Vita Sackville West and her husband Harold Nicholson. The informative text records the history of the house, its grandeur and decay and the transformation brought about by the making of the garden. The fine photographs depict the garden in all seasons, in all of its moods and, importantly, without the throngs of visitors always there during opening hours. This