HER OUTDOORS

THE WOMEN OF THE BLOOMSBURY SET FOUND SOLACE AND JOY IN THEIR GARDENS. A CENTURY ON, THERE'S MUCH TO ADMIRE – INCLUDING IDEAS FOR ENJOYING OUR OWN GREEN SPACES

Words: FRANCES AMBLER

Dorothy Parker may have quipped that the Bloomsbury Set ‘lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles’ but she neglected to say how they gardened. It's a shame she overlooked it – their gardens played a central role in their lives, loves and art. Through four Bloomsbury women and their gardens – Virginia Woolf at Monk's House in Rodmell, East Sussex, her sister, artist Vanessa Bell at nearby Charleston, arts patron Lady Ottoline Morrell at Garsington Manor, Oxfordshire, and Vita Sackville-West's famous Sissinghurst, Kent – we can discover more about their makers and how they wanted to live. In fact, they also offer plenty of creative inspiration for today. These are four very different sized gardens – Monk's House's ¾ acre compared to Garsington's 200 acres and Sissinghurst's 450…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2024

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