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Sissinghurst castle garden, Kent

The creation of English novelist and poet Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold, Sissinghurst gardens are ideal for a springtime wander. Enjoy the rich, warm colours of the Cottage Garden. Long beds of tulips, fritillaries and hyacinths are marked out by an avenue of pleached limes, scattered by generous terracotta pots, every inch bursting with colour for about four weeks. Early spring sees pink chinodoxias, scillas and white anemones come into bloom, looked over proudly by a Magnolia salicifolia and a big, bold mauve rhododendron.