• The Walled Garden, photograph by Marie Belfort

    Snapshot: Marie Belfort

    Marie Belfort had worked in events, marketing, and fundraising for many years before joining Winterbourne in 2014 as a Finance Administrator. In-between taking care of our daily income and expenditure, and much else besides, Marie makes time to walk around the garden, always with camera in hand poised ready to take a picture. We asked

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  • Ginkgo biloba in the Arboretum, photograph by Carien van Boxtel, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt

    Snapshot: Carien van Boxtel

    Carien van Boxtel is a self employed garden and landscape designer from Zaltbommel, The Netherlands. In November, whilst attending a meeting in the city centre, Carien longed for somewhere quiet and green. Happily she found Winterbourne and plenty of inspiration too. We asked her to tell us all about it.

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  • Squash, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt

    Snapshot: White

    “Snow-white is very vague. There is nearly always so much blue about the colour of snow, from its crystalline surface and partial transparency, and the texture is so unlike that of any kind of flower, that the comparison is scarcely permissable. I take it that the use of ‘snow-white’ is, like that of ‘golden-yellow’, more

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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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  • Winterbourne House and Drive, 1952, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Now and Then

    Winterbourne’s broad terrace was employed successfully by architect, JL Ball, as a means of transitioning from house to garden. Ball prescribed a typically understated treatment of the retaining wall and in particular the small verandah which links projecting cross wings on either side: ‘the ceiling and walls inside the verandah to be whitewashed and the

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