• The Nicolsons' grand-daughter Jenifer, with her nanny, in the Sunken Garden, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    The Natural Order of Things

    Horticulture is a pursuit of such breadth and all-encompassing habit, that many of those who practice it may seem as distant from one another as those of different professions altogether. Winterbourne was conceived at the height of the Arts and Crafts movement. Inspired by the movement’s chief protagonist, Gertrude Jekyll, the cult of the herbaceous…

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  • Autumn leaf identification, photograph by Leighanne Gee, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Monthly Masterclass: November

    Learn how to beat pesky pests, wave goodbye to the weeds and plant perfect plants with our step-by-step guides from the garden team at Winterbourne

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  • Dahlia display, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Monthly Masterclass: October

    Learn how to beat pesky pests, wave goodbye to the weeds and plant perfect plants with our step-by-step guides from the garden team at Winterbourne

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  • Eucomis and Agapanthus Malcolm Mollart
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    Snapshot: Greenbenchramblings

    Malcolm Mollart is the author of a long-running garden blog Greenbenchramblings which is inspired by the garden he created with his wife, Jude, in the South Shropshire Hills. In June of this year, Malcom paid us a visit and took plenty of photographs whilst he was at it. We asked him to select some of his…

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  • Mine section, Black Country, Lapworth Museum of Geology, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Powered by Plants

    Before his marriage to Margaret, and the construction of their family home, Winterbourne’s John Nettlefold cut his teeth in the family firm which eventually became Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds (GKN), one of the largest manufacturing companies of its time, first forged in the heat of the industrial revolution. John began work in the firm’s Broad…

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