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Month: December 2017

  • Edgbaston Wood, Now and Then: December, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: December

    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 the

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  • The Rock Garden Pool in snow, photograph by Susan Georgiou, Snapshot, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Susan Georgiou

    Susan Georgiou, 61, has lived in Birmingham all her life and worked for the Department for Work and Pensions for the past 43 years. Now semi-retired, Susan finds plenty of time to indulge her passion for photography at Winterbourne. “I have always taken photographs but it was the digital revolution that really sparked my interest.

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