Troy Scott Smith will present "Sissinghurst, a Garden in a Ruin in a Farm: Unlocking the Sense of Place" in Palm Beach ...

Reporting from Sissinghurst, England — — “Everybody knows Kent,” Charles Dickens wrote in “The Pickwick Papers,” “apples, cherries, hops and women.” Almost 175 years after publication of “Papers ...

In the warmer months, when Sissinghurst Castle Garden bursts into bloom, thousands of visitors from across the world flock to the space – characterised by an inescapable mix of architectural history, ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. When writer Vita ...

'I like being in this very unfashionable part of the English countryside' - Heathcliff O'Malley It’s a busy morning at Sarah Raven’s horticultural empire, Perch Hill Farm. Situated deep in the East ...

A Kent garden has been named one of the best in the world to visit this spring. The stunning Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Cranbrook has made Lonely Planet’s list of 10 must-visit gardens from its new ...

ONE HOUR SOUTH OF LONDON — Vita Sackville-West was a novelist and poet. Her husband, Harold Nicolson, was a diplomat. Those legacies are intertwined with their residence and plantings. Or should I say ...

I’ve never been to Sissinghurst Castle, in Kent. But I’ve had the vicarious experience. Without venturing more than an hour from my New England home in the United States, I’m almost there. I’ve ...

A garden makes an offbeat souvenir. In 1935, following a spring trip to Greece, the British poet and writer Vita Sackville-West and her husband, Harold Nicolson, a historian and diplomat, began ...

Back in 2008 I wrote an article suggesting that the garden at Sissinghurst Castle, in Kent, famously the creation of poet and garden-maker Victoria (“Vita”) Sackville-West and her husband, the ...

Reporting from Sissinghurst, England — — “Everybody knows Kent,” Charles Dickens wrote in “The Pickwick Papers,” “apples, cherries, hops and women.” Almost 175 years after publication of “Papers ...