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“The Dry Garden: Treasures from the University Herbarium”
Pressing flowers is a popular hobby today, and it has a very long history. For centuries, people have been pressing and drying plants in order to preserve, study and classify them.A herbarium is a collection of these preserved specimens, created for the purposes of research and education. Winterbourne now looks after the University Herbarium, and…
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Our rarest plants?
The rare plant fair is soon upon us and to celebrate, we asked our Head Gardener, Dan, all about looking after rare plants! Every year we host the Rare Plant Fair, bringing together scores of specialist plant nurseries all under one roof (or rather, on one lawn!). And every year I implore my mom to…
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The King of Flowers
This month the nation will come together to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III. It’s only natural then that we’ve been busy thinking about royalty ourselves, but not in the way you’d expect… Rather than focusing on well-known monarchs, Head Gardener Dan has been looking at horticultural royalty – and even crowned his very…
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It’s time to prune!
February is one of the best months to prune your plants: the days don’t bite quite like they do in January and there’s still plenty of time before the green shoots of spring appear. Find out what Head Gardener Dan and the team have been snipping so far this year to keep the garden looking…
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The friendly spider plant
While its namesake may make us shudder and scream, the spider plant – Chlorophytum comosum ‘Variegatum’ – is far from scary. The ideal addition to any indoor space, our Visitor Service Assistant Ann shares how these little plants can make a big impact to your home and wellbeing. It is dark again and, after returning…