National Trust Gardens Podcast - Sissinghurst

Alan visits Sissinghurst in Kent, previously home to poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West and her husband, diplomat Harold Nicolson. Working from ruins, the couple’s personalities collided and combined to create this dramatic, world-renowned garden. It comes complete with 300 varieties of rose, an area that’s planted to sparkle at twilight, and a castle tower with views to take your breath away.

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PLANT LIST

Sweet chestnut coppice woodland – Castanea sativa

Azalea mollis

The Himalayan blue poppy – Meconopsis betonicifolia

Polyanthus – various

Pleached lime trees - Tilia platyphyllos ‘Rubra’

Fritillaria imperialis

Tulips – various

Narcissus – various

Alba rose – various

Bourbon rose – Mme. Lauriol de Barny, Souvenir de la Malmaison

Centifolia rose – various

Damask rose – various

Gallica rose – Tuscany Superb, Cardinal de Richelieu, Belle de Crécy

Moss rose – Général Kléber

Peony

Iris

Eremurus – various

Phlox paniculata 'David'