• Eryngium in the Walled Garden, Now and Then July, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: July

    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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  • Perspective Image, Our Space in Space, Cath Fletcher, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Cath Fletcher

    Cath Fletcher is a Winterbourne Centre for Horticulture student and part time self-employed gardener. Less than a year ago she was in a full-time office-based role. Now, after a dramatic change in career, she’s a silver-merit medal winning designer, who’s ‘Our Space in Space’ garden had everybody talking at this year’s Gardeners’ World Live. “I…

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