Digging for Dirt
Behind the scenes with the team at Winterbourne House and Garden
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Object of the Month: Lucy of Teesdale
This month I am cheating and choosing three objects for the price of one! Since we took responsibility for the University Herbarium a couple of years ago, we have constantly been unearthing new treasures. The archive volunteers have been working on two collections of objects which came to us with the Herbarium – a box…
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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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The Great British Picnic
Summer has finally joined us and what better summer activity than going for a picnic? But did you know where the tradition of picnics came from? As I watched the skies darkening last Sunday I was hastily doing a mental note of how many family members I could fit round the dining room table to…
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Simple Lentil Curry Dish
This month, member of the team Naresh shares her recipe for a simple lentil daal. Serve with boiled rice, a green salad, and chapatis. Ingredients: 1 cupful of red split lentils1 small onion1 fresh tomato4 green chillies (add more if you like it hot)A small block of ginger3 cloves of garlic1 teaspoon of salt (you…
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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…