National Trust Gardens Podcast | Sissinghurst

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Alan Power visits Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent, previously home to poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West and her husband, politician 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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For information about visiting Sissinghurst please visit
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/sissinghurst-castle-garden

Plants Mentioned

• 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'