Tag Archives: Kent

Cinema Botanica: Only Lovers Left Alive

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Denise

If time is an ocean, then 2015 is already bobbing with the detritus of Best-of-2014 lists. I usually love these lists but just don’t have any idea where to look now that there’s so many out there. There was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Botanica | Tagged "Vita Sackville'West's Sissinghurst; The Creation of a Garden", Derek Jarman, Detroit, England, Jack White, Jim Jarmusch, Kent, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, photographer Howard Sooley, Prospect Cottage, Sarah Raven, The White Stripes, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, vampires | 11 Comments

March is Women’s History Month

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Denise

Let’s keep to the theme of horticulture, shall we? And just to make it easy, we’ll choose a famous and flamboyant practitioner of the garden arts, Vita Sackville-West, creator of the garden at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent. I doubt there’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Department of Instruction, essay, garden travel, garden visit | Tagged England, essay, Harold Nicolson, Kent, Knole, Long Barn, Sissinghurst Castle, Veitch Memorial Medal RHS, Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Vita Sackville-West, Women's History Month | 1 Comment