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Greek revival: the 90-year-old story of Sissinghurst’s new Aegean-inspired garden


A Mediterranean garden, resurrected from Vita Sackville-West’s archives, is bringing Aegean planting to Kent – and showing us the futureDelos is a half-acre garden of dusty paths and stone, weathered trees and colour-rich Aegean scrub, all scented with the musky Mediterranean aromas of thyme, yarrow, germander and oregano. Thorny burnet mingles with lavender-pink salvias and fissured cork oaks, and you half expect a lizard to scurry from the rocks. But this isn’t some sun-drenched Greek island; it’s a corner of one of England’s best-known country gardens, Sissinghurst, in Kent. The site is the successful reworking of a failed 1930s project by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, the aristo-bohemian couple who made Sissinghurst a place of poetry, romance, intrigue and exceptional horticultural beauty. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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