CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Introduction

Sissinghurst Since the Sixteenth Century

PART 1: THE PEOPLE AND THE PLACE

1. A Brief History

2. Finding the Dream

3. Sissinghurst’s Design

PART 2: VITA’S GARDEN THEMES

4. A Mixture of All Things

5. A Sophisticated Palette

6. Cram, Cram, Cram

7. Flowering Shrubs

8. Scents

PART 3: THE SMALLER CANVAS

9. Painterly Plants

10. Indoor and Container Gardening

11. Cut Flowers

12. The Recent Past

Photographs

Sources

Picture Credits and Colour Picture Captions

Index of Plants, Shrubs and Trees

Copyright