There has been woefully little time for writing articles the past year or so and I’m utterly delighted to be stepping back into the fray through the hallowed halls of world of interiors ‘Object Lesson’. We’re anticipating my season of all things meteoric with what are described as ‘the shooting stars’ of Vita Sackville-West’s garden at Sissinghurst, her irises.
This is a meditation one species in particular, the Three Oaks iris, a bright star of a plant, a total trip, and nigh-on impossible to get one’s hands on in the U.K. If you’re eager to see them, many of the irises return for a second bloom in September, which just happens to be when my next book, When The Sky Falls: A Human History of Shooting Stars, is published…
You can buy a copy of August’s World of Interiors here.
