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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
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Developing our fuchsia border
Each year the garden evolves, and the Garden Team continues to seek new ways to improve areas and planting schemes in the spirit of Margaret Nettlefold herself. During the autumn of 2020, the ‘Fuchsia Border’ was identified by the team as one such area that was under-utilised and in need of dramatic improvement. This 40m
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Bee-friendly plants
By Head Gardener, Daniel Cartwright Bees – and other pollinators – are so important to the garden and wider environment. We need bees to pollinate the plants we eat and all the other trees and flowers that make up the various habitats needed to support life. Like so many plants and animals, many bee species