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Plant Spotlight – Stipa gigantea
Plant Spotlight: Stipa gigantea Golden oats (Stipa gigantea) is well named. A large evergreen grass up to 2 metres tall, in summer it produces long panicles of arching oat-like flowers that emerge purple before turning golden-brown as the season progresses and the deciduous leaves of other species begin to change colour and fall. They are
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Plant Spotlight – Tromboncino Squash
Our tromboncino squash (Cucurbita moschata ‘Tromboncino’) have been causing a real stir this summer in the Walled Garden and Courtyard area near the Gift Shop. This giant, climbing squash is spectacular at this time of year, producing long trumpet-shaped fruits that can grow up to 1m long (!) if left on the plant to mature.
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Plant Spotlight – Houseplants
Houseplants Growing houseplants has never been more popular and with an ever-increasing range of exciting plants now readily available it’s easy to see why. Inspired by a new wave of houseplant horticulturalists, many of us are attempting to create our own Instagram-able interiorscapes that make plants – and lots of them – an integral
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Plant Spotlight – Dawn redwood
We have several specimens of Metasequoia glyptostroboides, or the dawn redwood, here at Winterbourne, mostly planted in 1952. They can be seen in the Woodland Walk and Stream Lawn. Several handsome specimens even form an avenue running either side of the stream which flows beneath the Japanese Bridge near the Sandstone Rock Garden. Dawn
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Plant Spotlight – Verbena bonariensis
Few plants were as fashionable as Verbena bonariensis over the last two decades. As gardeners everywhere grew to appreciate its many good qualities it became the archetypal ‘designer’ plant. And then, in the eyes of many, it was overused; an unforgivable garden cliché. Overused maybe, but Verbena still possesses all of the good qualities that