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Read our latest updates, stories from the house and garden, and get to know the people who bring Winterbourne to life.
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What’s Happening Here?
Join us each month as we go behind the scenes and ask what’s happening here? There will be sneak previews of projects and events, exclusive news from the garden and plenty of tips and ideas for you to try out at home. The Compost Bays Over the past few months we have had new, improved
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Plant Spotlight – Rhododendrons!
Sir William Jackson Hooker, one of England’s greatest nineteenth century botanists is reputed to have said: “Perhaps with the exception of the rose, the queen of flowers, no plants have excited more interest throughout Europe than the several species of the genus Rhododendron.” Rhododendrons are in full bloom around the country and the garden at Winterbourne
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Plant Spotlight
There are lots of different types of Japanese cherry planted in the garden at Winterbourne. We’ve got Prunus x yedoensis planted in the Geographical Beds, with single white flowers blooming in March and April. There’s a Prunus ‘Kanzan’ with double pink flowers that blooms slightly later in the Car Park. And blooming even later still
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What’s Happening Here?
Join us each month as we go behind the scenes and ask what’s happening here? There will be sneak previews of projects and events, exclusive news from the garden and plenty of tips and ideas for you to try out at home. The Japanese Bridge We’ve been busy over the last few weeks hard pruning
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News from the Archives: Noah’s Ark – a toy with contemporary relevance
Winterbourne was built in 1904 for John and Margaret Nettlefold and bequeathed to the University of Birmingham 40 years later by John Macdonald Nicolson. Follow our dedicated team of archivists as they explore Winterbourne’s past and share with you the special objects, photographs and documents contained within the Winterbourne Archives. This toy set, probably used