Find out about Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent
Find out more about this internationally renowned and extremely popular garden whether you love Sissinghurst already or aim to visit in future, in reality or as a virtual visitor.
Sissinghurst is also the most popular garden managed by the National Trust and is certainly one of my favourite gardens. The garden was developed by Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson around what was left of an Elizabethan mansion. The garden comprises small enclosed and themed compartments, which provide colour and variety throughout the season.
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- Plan / accessiblity of Sissinghurst Castle Garden
- BOOKS: About Sissinghurst
- The White Garden, Sissinghurst
- The Cottage Garden, Sissinghurst
- Moat Walk and Azalea Bank, Sissinghurst
- The Rose Garden, Sissinghurst
- The Herb Garden, Sissinghurst
- The Nuttery
- The Lime Walk
- The Orchard
- Vita Sackville West and Harold Nicholson
- BOOKS: Vita Sackville West - writing about gardens and gardening
- BOOKS: Gardening at Sissinghurst
- For the serious gardener....
- PHOTOS: Views of Sissinghurst
- Articles about Sissinghurst
- Sissinghurst - the BBC4 television programme
- Blogging about Sissinghurst Castle Garden
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Azaleas and Blossom in the Moat Walk in Spring
Sissinghurst Castle - house and gardens
Sissinghurst Castle Garden lies in the Weald of Kent near Cranbrook, Goudhurst and Tenterden. The garden is now owned and maintained by the National Trust.
The garden is one of the most popular gardens in the UK. It's visited by people from all over the world. Some garden enthusiasts would put it first.
The garden at Sissinghurst was created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardening writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. Nicholson provided the design and the structure while Sackville West had the vision and the creativity about planting schemes and colour.
It was first opened to the public in 1938.
Sackville-West was a writer on the fringes of the Bloomsbury group. She was also gardening correspondent of The Observer newspaper and wrote very popular weekly columns which in turn made her garden very famous.
The garden comprises a series of "rooms". Each room has a particular theme, character and/or colour.
- National Trust | Sissinghurst Castle Garden
- One of the world's most celebrated gardens, the creation of Vita Sackville-West and her husband Sir Harold Nicholson.
- National Trust - Welcome to Sissinghurst Leaflet
- Map of the garden and the property - including the walk around the Lake and the new vegetable garden
- National Trust | Sissinghurst | History
- The history of Sissinghurst. The original settlement dates back to the late 12th century
- Sissinghurst Castle Garden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Sissinghurst Castle Garden
- National Trust | Sissinghurst Castle Garden | Photo gallery
- Photo gallery featuring Sissinghurst Castle Garden, one of the world's most celebrated 20th-century gardens.
- Sissinghurst Castle Garden
- The site contains stunning digital photography of the entire garden. It also has a plan of the garden and its different "rooms"
- Horticulture Information - Sissinghurst Castle Garden
- An extensive webarticle developed by Susan Mahr of the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Very good descriptions of all parts of the garden together with plots of hotographs - Photos of Sissinghurst Castle Garden - PicturesOfEngland.com
- Photos of Sissinghurst Castle Garden at PicturesOfEngland.com
- Sissinghurst Garden - a review from the Garden and Landscape Guide
- Sissinghurst Garden - a review from the Garden and Landscape Guide
- Google Maps - Location of Sissinghurst Castle Garden
- Access is via A262, 1 mile east of Sissinghurst village. There is a small signpost and then a long drive along a narrow lane (with passing places) up to the Castle
- National Trust | Sissinghurst Castle Garden | Getting there
- How to get to the garden
- The Official Website of Cranbrook Kent England UK - Near Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - The Weald of Kent - Homepage
- Official Homepage of Cranbrook, Kent, England, UK
Places to stay near to Sissinghurst. - National Trust | Events | Find an event
- Events and things to do at Sissinghurst
- Sissinghurst Garden - a review from the Garden and Landscape Guide
- Sissinghurst Garden - a review from the Garden and Landscape Guide
Plan / accessiblity of Sissinghurst Castle Garden
This plan provides an indication of how accessible the garden is. Parts of the garden are unsuitable for wheelchairs. Access to garden is also limited by use of timed ticket entrance - even for National trust members - at busy times of the year.
The paths are so narrow in some parts of the garden that the National Trust does not allow the use of any tripods or easels in the garden. However artists and photographers can apply to the National Trust visit the garden on days when it is usually closed to the public.
BOOKS: Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History
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WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2009
The Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje prize, which goes to the work of literature deemed to have most successfully evoked "the spirit of a place".
A fascinating account from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, on the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst.
Sissinghurst is world famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended? Has its success over the last thirty years come at a price? Is Sissinghurst everything it could be?
The story of this piece of land, an estate in the Weald of Kent, is told here for the first time from the very beginning. Adam Nicolson, who now lives there, has uncovered remarkable new findings about its history as a medieval manor and great sixteenth-century house, from the days of its decline as an eighteenth-century prison to a flourishing Victorian farm and on to the creation, by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, of a garden in a weed-strewn wreck.
Alongside his recovery of the past, Adam Nicolson wanted something else: for the land at Sissinghurst to live again, to become the landscape of orchards, cattle, fruit and sheep he remembered from his boyhood.Could that living frame of a mixed farm be brought back to what had turned into monochrome fields of chemicalised wheat and oilseed rape? Against the odds, he was going to try.
BOOKS: About Sissinghurst
Sissinghurst Castle Garden (Kent) (National Trust Guidebooks)
The official National Trust Guidebook - written by Nigel Nicholson, son of Vita Sackville West and Sir Harold Nicholson - covering history, horticulture, garden history, history of art, architecture, social history, natural environment and conservation.
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
Revision of: Sissinghurst Castle: an illustrated guide (1964)
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Sissinghurst: Portrait of a Garden
Sissinghurst was first created by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in the shell of a large, moated 16th-century house. It has flourished for 60 years. Jane Brown records the history of the old house, its grandeur and decay and the transformations wrought by the making of the garden.
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The White Garden, Sissinghurst
Apparently, according to Adam Nicolson in the BBC4 documentary series on Sinssinghurst, there are a number of gardens in the USA which have replicated the white garden at Sissinghurst down to the last detail!
- Garden Hopping: Sissinghurst Castle: The White Garden
- Garden Hopping - Thoughts and images from the adventures of a would be garden design and horticultural student as she trips around the British countryside in search of gardens that delight.
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Sissinghurst Castle: The White Garden - Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - White Garden 1.
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of The White Garden
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - White Garden - 2
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of The White Garden (2)
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - White Garden - 3
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of The White Garden(3)
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - White Garden - 4
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of The White Garden(4)
An early August evening in the Cottage Garden
The Cottage Garden, Sissinghurst
- Garden Hopping: Sissinghurst Castle: The Cottage Garden
- Garden Hopping - Thoughts and images from the adventures of a would be garden design and horticultural student as she trips around the British countryside in search of gardens that delight.
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Sissinghurst Castle: The Cottage Garden - Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Cottage Garden 1
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of Sissinghurst Castle Gardens Cottage Garden (1)
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Cottage Garden 2
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of Sissinghurst Castle Gardens Cottage Garden (2)
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Cottage Garden 3
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of Sissinghurst Castle Gardens Cottage Garden (3)
Moat Walk and Azalea Bank, Sissinghurst
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Moat Walk and Azalea Bank - 1
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of Moat Walk and Azalea Bank (1)
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Moat Walk and Azalea Bank - 2
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of Moat Walk and Azalea Bank (2)
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Moat Walk and Azalea Bank - 3
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of Moat Walk and Azalea Bank (3)
View of the orchard and tower in Autumn
The Rose Garden, Sissinghurst
- Garden Hopping: Sissinghurst Castle: The Rose Garden
- Garden Hopping - Thoughts and images from the adventures of a would be garden design and horticultural student as she trips around the British countryside in search of gardens that delight.
Tuesday, 17 June 2008 Sissinghurst Castle: The Rose Garden - Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Rose Garden
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of The Rose Garden, Sissinghurst (1)
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Rose Garden 2
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of The Rose Garden, Sissinghurst (2)
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Rose Garden 3
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of The Rose Garden, Sissinghurst (3)
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Rose Garden 4
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of The Rose Garden, Sissinghurst (4)
The Herb Garden, Sissinghurst
- Garden Hopping: Sissinghurst Castle: The Herb Garden
- Garden Hopping - Thoughts and images from the adventures of a would be garden design and horticultural student as she trips around the British countryside in search of gardens that delight.
Friday, 20 June 2008Sissinghurst Castle: The Herb Garden - Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Herb Garden - 1
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of The Herb Garden, Sissinghurst (1)
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Herb Garden - 2
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of The Herb Garden, Sissinghurst (2)
The Nuttery
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - The Nuttery - 1
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of The Nuttery #1
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - The Nuttery - 2
- Dave Parker's photographic tour of The Nuttery #2
The Lime Walk
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Lime Walk
- Dave Parker's Photographic tour of Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Lime Walk 1.
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Lime Walk
- Dave Parker's Photographic tour of Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Lime Walk 2.
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Lime Walk
- Dave Parker's Photographic tour of Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Lime Walk 3.
The Orchard
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - The Orchard - 1
- Photographic tour of Sissinghurst Castle Gardens.
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - The Orchard - 2
- Photographic tour of Sissinghurst Castle Gardens.
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - The Orchard - 3
- Photographic tour of Sissinghurst Castle Gardens.
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - The Orchard in Autumn - 4
- Photographic tour of Sissinghurst Castle Gardens.
The Gazebo in the Orchard
Vita Sackville West and Harold Nicholson
Writers and Gardens and the creators of the gardens at Sissinghurst
- Vita Sackville-West - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Vita Sackville-West From Wikipedia
- Harold Nicolson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Sir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMG (November 21, 1886 - May 1, 1968) was a British diplomat, author, diarist, and politician. He was the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West
- Vita Sackville-West
- Novelist, poet, and consummate gardener, Victoria Mary (Vita) Sackville-West was born March 9, 1892, at Knole Castle, Sevenoaks, Kent and died on June 2, 1962, at Sissinghurst Castle. Vita married Harold Nicolson on October 1. 1912. Vita and Harold had two children, Benedict and Nigel Nicolson.
was born March 9, 1892, at Knole Castle, Sevenoaks, Ke - Vita Sackville-West
- Great Garden Designers by Sarah Topp
- Long Life - by Nigel Nicholson (extract)
- Descriptions of the key characters associated with Sissinghurst by Nigel Nicholson
BOOKS: Vita Sackville West - writing about gardens and gardening
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Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, her intense passion for her subject and her lively literary flair make these classics of garden writing essential for any serious gardener's bookshelf.
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Travels with my Sketchbook in......Sissinghurst
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- My first sketching trip to Sissinghurst - and sketch of the Moat Walk
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: The White Garden, Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
- We went to Sissinghurst Gardens in Kent on Friday and I produced the above sketch while sat in the corner of the White Garden. The White Garden only contains flowers which are white and rather a lot of 'silver/grey foliage plants.
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Summer at Sissinghurst
- At the end of July I visited the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle - one of the most noted gardens for flowers in England. After all the rain we've had this summer, the Cottage Garden and the White Garden were both quite spectacular.
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Autumn at Sissinghurst
- Sissinghurst Castle in Kent closes its house and gardens to the public a week on Sunday and does not reopen until March. I visited the garden late on Monday afternoon when it was very quiet and sketched the sixteenth century tower, in which Vita Sackville West had her writing room, and the grounds from the bank beyond the moat at the back of the gardens.
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Spring at Sissinghurst
- Here's my latest sketch of the garden at Sissinghurst. I've previously done posts about Summer At Sissinghurst and Autumn at Sissinghurst - now it's time for Spring at Sissinghurst! Above you can see a view of the Moat Walk with the vivid yellow azaleas on the right and the Japanese Wisteria on the left. All you're missing are the wonderful violet blue bluebells which were growing around the base of the azaleas - making a wonderful colour contrast.
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Sissinghurst - and tips for time limited sketches
- This is about sketching a view of the Cottage Garden at Sissinghurst and shows you my 'before' and 'after' versions of the same sketch. It also provides some tips for sketching within a time limit.
BOOKS: Gardening at Sissinghurst
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RHS Five Year Gardener's Record Book: In Association with the RHS (Rhs)
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A record book for gardeners, with space to record your garden's developing pleasures over five years.
It provides a central repository for horticultural notes, including plants to purchase; plants already acquired, and which nursery they came from; gardens to visit and reflections on those visited; and plants that grow well in your area.
It is designed to allow the user to see their garden's progress clearly: each month is separated into three sections (early, middle and late) so that you can record which plants do best for you, when they are at their peak and the methods you used to grow them.
Gardens and Flowers in Art - Resources for Artists
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If you love looking at paintings of gardens or enjoy drawing or painting your own garden or gardens you visit then this site will interest you. It also looks at gardens as art and artwork in gardens. It shares links to information about: - looking at...
PHOTOS: Views of Sissinghurst
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- The Observer, Sunday 31 October 1999 - Monty Don - Up the garden path
- Everyone loved Vita Sackville-West's gardening column for 'The Observer'... except the writer herself.
- The Observer, Sunday 22 August 2004 - Monty Don - All white now
- Think of a white garden and Sissinghurst springs to mind. But you can create your own castle garden with an army of cream and ivory flowers, says Monty Don.
- The past has gone - so bury it - Telegraph (31 Jul 2004)
- Instead of re-creating great gardens of former years, we should look to the future, argues Tim Richardson. References Sissinghurst.
- The Observer, Sunday 22 July 2007 - Adam Nicholson - The quiet revolution behind the garden gate
- The quiet revolution behind the garden gate
Vita Sackville-West was horrified when it was suggested the National Trust should run her beloved Sissinghurst. As the trust reinvents itself, her grandson Adam Nicolson explains why she need not have worried - Times Online Literary Supplement - The unfinished Sissinghurst (Jennifer Potter)
- A book review of Adam Nicolson's SISSINGHURST An unfinished history
- I was the prince of Sissinghurst - Times Online
- Adam Nicholson, (son of Nigel Nicholason and grandon of Harold and Vita) is a writer and traveller and has written a book which recalls his life at romantic Sissinghurst Castle in Kent
Includes a video which provides a tour of Sissinghurst - Let's do lunch - Times Online
- Adam Nicholson is keen to revitalise the farmland at Sissinghurst, his ancestral home, and has had the bright idea of growing the food for the visiting public.
"The idea, simply, was this. If the National Trust, which since 1967 has owned not only the house and garden at Sissinghurst, but the 260 acres of farm-land around it, could be persuaded to use that land to grow lunch for the 115,000 people each year who eat in its restaurant, we could restore richness and vitality to this small slice of rural Kent." - Families allow a house to live - Times Online
- Sissinghurst has been a family house since 1930 when my grandmother, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, and my grandfather, Harold Nicolson, the historian and biographer, rescued the house and garden from ruin.
- Kent News - Sissinghurst tensions laid bare for TV cameras
- kentnews.co.uk is the county's regional and local website delivering the latest news, sport and weather. You can also reader digital editions of Kent on Sunday, Saturday Observer as well as your local mid week newspaper. Search for a job, cars and homes for sale in Kent as well as link through to yo
- The Guardian, Saturday 27 September 2008 - Love Among the roses
- Review: Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History
Kathryn Hughes is touched by an unsentimental memoir
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished Story is written with that heightened lyricism which seems to have become the default mode for the new nature writing. Beautiful in small portions, it can become too rich when poured over page after page, like one cream tea too many. - Unknown
- Adam Nicolson takes award for Sissinghurst, a memoir of his family's ancestral home
Sissinghurst - Elizabethan Barn and fields by Katherine Tyrrell
Sissinghurst - the BBC4 television programme
It presents an interesting insight into the nature of the relationship between the donor family - who still live at Sissinghurst - and the National Trust and their managers and staff who actually run Sissinghurst
- BBC iPlayer - Sissinghurst: Episode 1
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- BBC iPlayer - Sissinghurst: Episode 6
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- Kent Messenger | News | Days in the life of... Sissinghurst
- A TELEVISION series featuring a famous garden and farm is to be aired later this month.
The film was made over several months at Sissinghurst Castle Garden and Farm, as well as in the village. - UK Film and Television News - KEO Explores Sissinghurst For BBC 4
- UK Film and Television News - KEO Explores Sissinghurst For BBC 4
(apologies for the awful intrusive soundtrack which accompanies this item) - The Observer, 16 November 2008 - Christmas at Sissinghurst
- Christmas at Sissinghurst by Andrew Purvis
While visitors to the gardens peer through the windows, Sarah Raven cooks an early Christmas lunch in her national trust kitchen - The Independent - 28 February 2009 - Secateurs at dawn at Sissinghurst
- Secateurs at dawn at Sissinghurst By Andy McSmith
Ignore the idyllic facade: Sissinghurst, the country house made famous by Vita Sackville-West, has been rocked by a row between the writer's family and the National Trust.
Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, a country mansion with one of the most beautiful gardens in Britain, draws lesbians from across the world seeking intellectual inspiration. It has become an unlikely battle ground in the class war, although this is not class war as Marx or Lenin knew it. It is fought over - Tension at Sissinghurst as Poirot meets River Cottage | Opinion | The First Post
- Am I going mad? Don't answer that. Merely clarify one thing. Is BBC4's new Sunday night show Sissinghurst a fly-on-the wall docu-series about the various ways in which the National Trust resists the pressure for Vita Sackville West's beloved Kentish castle and gardens to be hauled into River Cottage-ville with their own sustainable veg plot and sheep farm?
Blogging about Sissinghurst Castle Garden
- Human Flower Project - Sissinghurst: Now I See It. Now You Do, Too
- The Human Flower Project, directed by author and sociologist Julie Ardery
......The wonder of Sissinghurst is that it's approachable. You're never likely to have a plot this big, nor the money to pay the wages, but you can take away the idea. Each part of the garden has a character, a focus, some feature that distinguishes it. Its size varies-some small intimate corner; a trough; a wall; a walk; a field...... - Tea at Sissinghurst Castle %uFFFD The Ravenous Rambler
- The Ravenous Rambler managed a short visit today to Sissinghurst Castle in Kent. This is one of my favourite places.
- Trust tracks down its plants in hunt for treasures | An Inconvenient Blog
- Environmental news and guides
Experts and volunteers armed with satellite positioning systems and digital cameras yesterday began what is billed as the UK's biggest plant count....In the coming months some of Europe's famous gardens will be surveyed, including Sissinghurst in Kent - Transatlantic Plantsman: The wrong daffodils
- Plants, books on plants and using plants - from Graham Rice in Pennsylvania (USA - zone 5) and in Northamptonshire (UK - zone 8)
- Visiting UK - Trains from London to Sissinghurst
- travel advice
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- Kent - The Garden of England - South East England Website
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- Visit Kent | Official Kent Tourism & Travel Website For Kent Tourists
- Kent - The garden of England, English countryside at its best. A landscape of rolling hills and wooded valleys, orchards and vineyards, splendid castles, gardens and many historic houses. The website for everything Kent. Places to stay in Kent, days out in Kent, places to visit in Kent
- Kent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Kent From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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- Kent - The garden of England, English countryside at its best - maps of Kent
- Historic Kent - Early Invaders
- Historic-Kent.co.uk The premier website for SE England - visit Kent today!
- Kent - The Garden of England
- Photographs of Kent - Oast houses and hops!
- Sissinghurst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Sissinghurst (village) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sissinghurst is situated with Cranbrook to the south, Goudhurst to the west, Tenterden to the east and Staplehurst to the north. It sits just back from the A229 which goes from Rochester to Hawkhurst.
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- CoolFoto CoolFoto Jun 25, 2009 @ 6:02 pm
- My husband and I photographed at Kew Gardens and have sold several of those photographs to national horticultural magazines. You have done a great job of covering this garden. Easy to see how much you enjoy it!
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- WhitePineLane WhitePineLane Jun 23, 2009 @ 8:37 pm
- What a wonderful, thorough lens on Sissinghurst! I've lensrolled it to my Vita Sackville-West lens!
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- monarch13 monarch13 Jun 19, 2009 @ 10:08 am
- How beautiful. Congrats on your purple star!
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- nirtakna nirtakna Jan 27, 2009 @ 5:16 am
- wonderful! also feel free to visit vita on www.myspace.com/dearcreature !
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- Pantherart Pantherart Sep 11, 2008 @ 7:07 am
- I sure wish I could take a trip to England to visit this garden sure looks nice thanks for the pictures great lens 5 stars
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Who is Making A Mark?
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I'm an artist with a very wide range of interests who enjoys learning about art, making art and sharing information about art. I've combined all my information sites with sections of my other websites and blogs to highlight my main interests and acti...
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