Sissinghurst Castle Gardens
Sissinghurst:
Last Sunday I went with my family out on a treks for lavender for our newly re designed front garden. Supposedly the place we were going to was highly recommended in the tourist guide book for Kent. This place was most perculiar... It was hidden away behind a converted mansion and the main building was a 1940s prefab and it looked like nothing had changed probably since that time. We were expecting to see fields of lavende,r but all there were were a few withered plants that looked like they hadn't been watered for a week and some old poly tunnels. To view "the lavender gardens" cost £4, but we did not take them up on that offer. Instead we found the only good plants there really and we bought them all so that we didn't feel so bad for driving all that way! Whilst we were so far into Kent we decided to visit this castle nearby, which belongs to The National Trust called Sissinghurst Castle Gardens. Over the centuries Sissinghurst Castle has been built up, knocked down, re-positioned, built back up again and once more been reduced in size. With the grand 3 sided mansion being demolished to leave just an entrance, central arched tower, barns, a granary and some tiled cottages. The rest of the land has formal english gardens that all link together with orchards and a herb garden and set within the rolling Kentish countryside.
posted by Pablo @ 10:54 am
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