• Newly planted trough, photograph by Maggie Bucknall, The Week That Was, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    The Week That Was: 19th – 23rd November

    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 19th We began the week by chopping back giant rhubarb (Gunnera manicata) plants around our pond in the Woodland Walk. Each autumn, as the leaves…

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  • Autumn harvest in the Old Kitchen Courtyard, photograph by Maggie Bucknall, The Week That Was, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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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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  • The Printing Press, photograph by Duncan Walker, Snapshot, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Duncan Walker

    Duncan Walker is soon to turn 50 and hopes to prove that age is just a number when he leaves behind a successful career as an IT Technician in order to pursue his lifelong-dream of becoming a professional photographer. Duncan is always on the hunt for new subjects to test his skills and visited Winterbourne…

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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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