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The Week That Was: 21st – 25th January
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 21st The week began with Deputy Head Gardener Dan installing lots of newly engraved plant labels in the garden. Each new label contains vital information…
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The Week That Was: 22nd – 26th October
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 22nd On Monday we began lifting turf on the Arboretum Lawn where two large new borders will be created over the winter. The project began…
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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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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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Snapshot: Lolly Gautier-Ollerenshaw
Lolly is 34 years old and lives in Bournville with her husband and 3-year-old son. After a lifetime spent collecting clippings from garden magazines, Lolly finally felt inspired to begin her own journey into horticulture and jumped at the chance to enrol on our own RHS Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Garden Planning.…