Sissinghurst Castle Garden Copper Planter (77cm x 94cm)

Faithfully repoduced from the original copper planter found at Sissinghurst, Architectural Heritage and the National Trust are proud to be working in partnership to handcraft this beautiful brass planter inspired by Vita Sackville-West's garden.

Sissinghurst was a ruin when Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson purchased the estate in 1930. They spent three years clearing the long-overgrown land and a further three decades designing and developing its gardens.

Sissinghurst's gardens were first opened to the public in 1937 and 'drew on the sense of an abandoned past’ with the Old Tower at its heart. Although the White Garden is the most well-known of Sissinghurst’s ten garden rooms, the Cottage Garden by contrast has a planting scheme reminiscent of the sunset, with warm reds and golds which clamour in a riot of hot colour during the late summer and early autumn.

In the centre of the Cottage Garden, nestled between four tall Irish yews, is a large copper planter. Likely to have been found locally, the planter comes from a long-outdated Victorian water heating system, reused by Vita as an axis feature.

Fashioned from thick sheet brass, our replica of Sissinghurst's original copper planter features a similarly rounded silhouette, rivets and verdigris patination that enables us to faithfully replicate the original.

Made to last a lifetime, every planter sold helps fund vital conservation work at places such as Sissinghurst to ensure the nation’s historic houses, gardens and open spaces can be enjoyed for generations to come.

Because each planter is carefully handmade, delivery takes 7 months. The wait is worth it - every planter is unique and has had the hands of experts at Architectural Heritage fine tune every detail.

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