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Read our latest updates, stories from the house and garden, and get to know the people who bring Winterbourne to life.
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Spring flowers: From garden blooms to botanical prints
Spring is one of the most exciting times in the garden, when our perennial plants start to poke their heads through the soil and flowers, such as snowdrops and early daffodils herald warmer weather. These gorgeous flowers are represented in our museum collections too. Archives volunteer, Claire Young, has curated a display of botanical prints
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Father’s Lines: Bringing together literature, art and nature
This year, we’re delighted to be part of an exciting combined-arts project by Saranjit Birdi, Father’s Lines. You may remember Saranjit Birdi from his 2023 exhibitions, Secret Life of Plants and Poiesis, which included paintings, prints and small metal sculptures based on Winterbourne’s Flora and Herbarium collection. In Father’s Lines, Saranjit once again draws on
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Introducing Much is Lost, Much Remains by Marian Edwards
Our exciting exhibition programme continues this year with a brand-new collection of work by artist Marian Edwards, which will open on 21 March 2026. Curator, Henrietta, has been talking to Marian about her life, her work and the serious challenges that she has faced and overcome. Where it all began Marian has always been enthralled
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Twenty years in bloom: A farewell from Head Gardener Dan Cartwright
After spending the past 20 years working at Winterbourne, I am saying goodbye this February to take on a new challenge as a Head Gardener elsewhere. Winterbourne has been such a significant part of my life, it’s been a hugely difficult decision – but it’s time for me to get my teeth into another garden landscape
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Angling, Snooker and Darts: The sporting life of GKN employees
It’s not often that I drive around with a car full of silverware, but that’s exactly what happened last September following a visit to a former Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds (GKN) site in Darlaston. I had been contacted by the director of a company on the site of the GKN Atlas works. He had discovered