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Month: September 2017

  • Dahlia 'Amberglow', photograph by Eleanor Hill, Now and Then, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: September

    When Margaret Nettlefold planned the garden at Winterbourne, daughter Valerie revealed that her mother ‘lived with gardening books for a year or so’. Here, the influence of Gertrude Jekyll is inescapable. Winterbourne is filled with Jekyllian detail inspired by her 1899 classic Wood and Garden. Each month, we follow in Margaret’s footsteps to see how

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  • The Japanese Bridge, photograph by Alice Whitehouse, Digging for Dirt, Winterbourne House and Garden
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    Snapshot: Alice Whitehouse

    Alice Whitehouse recently graduated from the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham with a BA (Hons) in Film Production. Now a freelance photographer and videographer, with a particular interest in landscapes and wildlife, she regularly visits gardens in search of inspiration. Alice couldn’t resist bringing her camera along when she visited Winterbourne for the first

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