HOME OF HER OWN: THE HOUSES AND GARDENS/ VITA SACKVILLE WEST

Throughout her life, Vita Sackville-West lived in?extraordinary places?and was fascinated and inspired by their histories. An obsession with her ancestry and with Knole - the monumental house in which she grew up - remained central throughout her life. Long Barn became the site of Vita’s first major?foray?into garden design, but it was at Sissinghurst that she and her husband transformed a ruined castle and a tumbledown farm into one of?England’s?loveliest and most celebrated?gardens. Vita’s glorious residences, inside and out, are a key to her identity.