planting follows the vision of this garden's creators, writer vita sackville—west, and her husband, harold nicholsonardening style, you know, was so interesting and different and unique at the time. they weren't doing the obvious. we were making a garden completely individual, full of personality and character. so it's so important we kind of keep those qualities. it's getting on for 100 years now since vita and harold started work on this garden, him creating the formal lines and herfilling it with her profusion of planting, creating the individual rooms which we can still wander around today. it's from the air that you can see those rooms most clearly. and what goes into them is the result of careful research they wrote letters to each other, perhaps with even shopping lists of what they have seen at a plant fair that they might like to plant in the garden. so we often draw upon our knowledge from that research. in a few weeks, the whole garden will be overflowing with colour. te flowers compete to catch your eye. for now, every glimpse of a new bud emerging repays ourfaith. summer, howeverslowly,

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