Vita Sackville-West (1892 – 1962), the British author known for All Passion Spent and The Edwardians (as well as for her great friendship with Virginia Woolf) was nearly equally known for her passion for gardening and garden design. Enjoy the selection of quotes by Vita Sackville-West on gardens and gardening in this post — they’re wonderful metaphors for life itself!

The gardens at Sissinghurst, the home she shared with Harold Nicolson, are masterful. Though she considered herself an amateur, she remains a respected name in garden design.

Vita had a voice that was at once authoritative yet never bossy, often acknowledging that the garden can become the master of its caretaker, rather than the other way around. Something that always comes through is her passion for gardens, gardening, and beauty in bloom. According to The Telegraph in a recent appraisal of Vita’s gardening legacy:
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