Your gran's Pinterest board, but make it aristocratic drama and secret queer history.
the Gardens at Hidcote Manor, Mottisfont Abbey, Sissinghurst Castle With a cameo appearance by Nigel Nicolson Why did American-born Major Lawrence Johnston spend much of his lifetime creating a storied garden in a remote part of the Cotswolds? What is Graham Stuart Thomas's glorious collection of antique roses doing in a medieval English Abbey? What persuaded author, poet and plantswoman Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson to buy a derelict ruin on the edge of the Kentish Weald to create their fabled garden? Their son, Nigel Nicolson, reminisces about this most beloved of gardens and his now legendary parents. An extensive tour of each garden examines design, plantings, close-up details, and observations by gardeners. An hour of sheer enjoyment, beauty, and an excellent source of inspiration for those with a love for gardens.
Cinematography
Lingering close-ups of roses that feel indecent.
Production
Nigel Nicolson's cameo: living history in a cardigan.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vita Sackville-West's affair with Virginia Woolf inspired Orlando — Sissinghurst was where she wrote and loved simultaneously.
Lawrence Johnston was so secretive about Hidcote's design that he burned his own papers; the garden itself became his only autobiography.
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