Birmingham | Overcast clouds 5°C
Opening hours: 10:30am  ―  4:00pm  |  OPEN

View archives

Month: May 2018

  • Wisteria sinensis 'Prolific' on the Pergola, photograph by Tony Bucknall, Now and Then May, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
    , ,

    Now and Then: May

    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…

    Read more

  • Skunk cabbage, photograph by Maggie Bucknall, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
    , , ,

    Snapshot: Maggie Bucknall

    Maggie Bucknall was an Insurance Risk Manager for 25 years and later a Nutritional Therapist and Lecturer running an undergraduate Nutrition Degree. Now retired, Maggie is kept busy indulging her passion for nature, photography and heritage, and organising exciting shoots for her local photography group We All Shoot Photos (WASPs). “When I was a child…

    Read more