• Exterior photo of Winterbourne House and Garden at the beginning of Autumn
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    The Week That Was: 17th – 21st September

    Go behind the scenes, meet the team and get some great tips for your own garden at home. Join us as we look back at the week that was… Monday 17th On Monday we were visited by Linda Eggins, curator of the National Collection of Aucuba japonica – a medium sized evergreen shrub with dark…

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  • The Red and Yellow Border, photograph by Maggie Bucknall, Now and Then August, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: August

    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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  • 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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  • Walled Garden, 6th July 1983, Now and Then June, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: June

    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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