Sissinghurst. Portrait of a Garden. collectors and botanical artists who

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This book has world wide scope and provides comprehensive coverage of people and places

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Thames and Hudson Ltd

Yale University Press

Sissinghurst. Portrait of a Garden. collectors and botanical artists whoJane 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