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

collectors and botanical artists who focused on this group of plants and also details orchid structure

as well as all aspects of the garden from the ancient to the avant-garde

Dan Kiley and Jane Amidon

flying period

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