{"id":122916,"date":"2021-10-30T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/greek-revival-the-90-year-old-story-of-sissinghursts-new-aegean-inspired-garden\/"},"modified":"2021-10-30T18:08:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T11:08:20","slug":"greek-revival-the-90-year-old-story-of-sissinghursts-new-aegean-inspired-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/greek-revival-the-90-year-old-story-of-sissinghursts-new-aegean-inspired-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek revival: the 90-year-old story of Sissinghurst\u2019s new Aegean-inspired garden"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA Mediterranean garden, resurrected from Vita Sackville-West\u2019s archives, is bringing Aegean planting to Kent \u2013 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\u2019t some sun-drenched Greek island; it\u2019s a corner of one of England\u2019s 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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A Mediterranean garden, resurrected from Vita Sackville-West\u2019s archives, is bringing Aegean planting to Kent \u2013...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-vYw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122333,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-suffolk-oasis-my-year-reviving-cedric-morriss-garden-at-benton-end\/","url_meta":{"origin":122916,"position":0},"title":"A Suffolk oasis: my year reviving Cedric Morris\u2019s garden at Benton End","date":"October 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\r I was getting to grips with parenthood in a sweltering London flat when an even bigger challenge fell in my lap: restoring the horticulturalist\u2019s sprawling gardenSwifts race past our south London window on midsummer evenings and nest below the terrace rooftops opposite; in rural Suffolk, droves of swallows dart\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":124774,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/flower-power-why-blooms-are-an-essential-part-of-any-garden\/","url_meta":{"origin":122916,"position":1},"title":"Flower power: why blooms are an essential part of any garden","date":"March 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A homegrown bouquet is great for pollinators, a pleasure for people and a green alternative to buying from the cut-flower industry \u2013 so don\u2019t forget to include them on your plotLast autumn, I visited Sissinghurst Castle Garden. 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