In Your Garden

From 1946, the writer Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column for "Thebserver". These articles were later compiled to form a series of books,howing Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, her intense passion for theubject and her lively literary flair.

Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) is known as much for her creation of the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle with her husband Harold Nicolson as for her numerous novels -- which include The Edwardians and All Passion Spent -- her collections of poetry and her gardening articles for the Observer. A central figure in the Bloomsbury group of artists and writers, she was the model for Virginia Woolf's Orlando