• Walled Garden, Monthly Masterclass: June, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Monthly Masterclass: June

    Do it: weed control Step 1 No matter how much preparation work has taken place the odd weed species will always appear in summer ready to challenge ornamentals in a battle for supremacy. Annual weeds reproduce in a single year before the parent plant dies leaving only offspring behind. Some, like hairy bittercress, spread but…

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  • Candelabra primula, The Comedy of Errors, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    The Comedy of Errors

    William Shakespeare may have known a thing or two about writing a farce, but over the years the Winterbourne team have been responsible for some hilarious horticultural mishaps fit to rival anything described by the great Bard. A comedy of cultivation errors – there has even been the odd case of mistaken identity… “I started…

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