The photograph below shows the sculpture on the left side of a broad mown walk. The planting at his base is quite different from the way that the Nuttery looked before 1975, when the famous primroses were replaced with a mixed woodland planting of ferns and woodland flowers - primarily in shades of yellow and green.
The photograph below shows the Nuttery as Harold and Vita knew it - carpeted with polyanthus (primroses). This was one of the most popular of Sissinghurst's plantings, so when the primroses began dying, the gardeners did everything that they could to save them, but it was eventually decided to replace them with other plants. The primroses had been grown in the same spot for decades and diseases had built up.
The new planting is more refined and varied than the carpet of polyanthus, but it lacks the simple joy of the earlier planting. It is hoped that the Nuttery will be replanted with primroses at some time in the future.
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