Sissinghurst Castle

/ ˈsɪsɪŋhɜːst /

noun

1. a restored Elizabethan mansion near Cranbrook in Kent: noted for the gardens laid out in the 1930s by Victoria Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

Example Sentences

But the stars of the garden have always been the trees, among them a magnificent 400-year-old mulberry, five magnolias and two figs Rumary grew from cuttings taken from Vita Sackville-West’s garden at Sissinghurst Castle.

From New York Times

If you are even mildly versed in such topics as Tulipomania, the English landscape style, the creation of Sissinghurst Castle Garden, it seems cursory and, in the absence of stronger connecting threads, actually quite tedious.

From Washington Post

She even created a world-class garden, at Sissinghurst Castle.

From National Geographic

One of Jekyll’s admirers was Vita Sackville-West, whose renowned garden at Sissinghurst Castle, south of London, includes a white garden aped in private gardens around the world.

From Washington Post

Sackville-West, who died aged 70 in 1962, is known for her decade-long affair with fellow writer Virginia Woolf, as well as her literary career and designing the gardens of Sissinghurst Castle with her husband.

From BBC