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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…
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Putting your garden to bed
It’s that time of year when it’s time to put the garden to bed. Follow these three easy steps and you’ll soon be sitting back next to the fire, flicking through seed catalogues and dreaming of what to plant in the garden next spring. Step One – protect your tender perennials Tender perennials like half-hardy…
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Embrace the season with autumn colour
There’s plenty of fabulous autumn colour around at this time of year, but it doesn’t just have to be deciduous trees that star. They’re brilliant if you have the room, but not everybody does. Why not think outside the box and get some autumn colour into your garden using some of these often overlooked, common…
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Turning up the heat
For the last few years, we’ve been growing chilli plants in the lower half of our lean-to glasshouse in the Walled Garden. This is an important part of an effort to get more ‘edibles’ in Winterbourne’s only original greenhouse, dating back to the Edwardian period. The Walled Garden during that time would have been used…