SOURCES

Vita’s gardening boots on a chair in the Brew House, 1962.

VITA SACKVILLE-WEST:

In Your Garden (Michael Joseph), 1951

In Your Garden Again (Michael Joseph), 1953

More for Your Garden (Michael Joseph), 1955

Even More for Your Garden (Michael Joseph), 1958

Some Flowers (Cobden-Sanderson), 1937

Country Notes (Michael Joseph), 1939

Royal Horticultural Journal, 1953

Country Life, 28 August, 4 and 11 Sept 1942

Graham Stewart Thomas, The Old Shrub Roses, 1955. Foreword by Vita

HAROLD NICOLSON:

Diary 27 September 1933

Letter to Vita, August 1940

OTHER SOURCES:

Jane Brown, Vita’s Other World: A Gardening Biography of Vita Sackville-West (Penguin), 1987

Edward Bunyard, Old Garden Roses (Graham Thomas)

Peter Coates, Great Gardens of the World (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), 1963. Introduction by Harold Nicolson

Tony Lord, Gardening at Sissinghurst (Frances Lincoln), 1995

William Robinson, The English Flower Garden (Bloomsbury Gardening Classics), 1998

William Robinson, The Wild Garden (Timber Press), 2010

Anne Scott-James, Sissinghurst: The Making of a Garden (Michael Joseph), 1975