This lecture looks at Vita's life and the extraordinary garden she created
The Arts and Crafts gardens movement in the late nineteenth century, created in particular by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll, set a standard against which English gardens would be measured for the next 60 years.
This lecture focuses on Vita Sackville-West and the extraordinary garden she created at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, which 60 years after her death continutes to charm and delight visitors.
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
Mr James Bolton
Inchbald School of Design 1990 (Dip ISD). Head Gardener, Old Rectory Farnborough 1990-92. Faculty Director, Design History, Inchbald School of Design. Garden Designer 1992-. A lecturer for The Arts Society since 1995. Organiser of The Arts Society's garden study days and tours in UK and Europe. Organises tours to the best private gardens in the UK, Italy, France and South Africa. Garden Mania, a book on garden ornaments, published in 2000.
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