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Behind the scenes with the team at Winterbourne House and Garden

  • Exterior photo of Winterbourne House and Garden at the beginning of Autumn
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    The Week That Was: 17th – 21st September

    Go behind the scenes, meet the team and get some great tips for your own garden at home. Join us as we look back at the week that was… Monday 17th On Monday we were visited by Linda Eggins, curator of the National Collection of Aucuba japonica – a medium sized evergreen shrub with dark…

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  • Cyclamen hederifolium, photograph by Victoria Beddoes, Snapshot So Victoria, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: So Victoria

    Victoria Beddoes is a Digital Marketing and Communications Officer, professional photographer and author of the award-winning home and lifestyle blog called So Victoria. It was 26 years before the Bromsgrove-based blogger first discovered Winterbourne – and now she can’t stop coming back. “My progression to professional photography was a long journey. I studied photography at…

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  • The Red and Yellow Border, photograph by Maggie Bucknall, Now and Then August, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: August

    When Margaret Nettlefold planned the garden at Winterbourne, daughter Valerie revealed that her mother ‘lived with gardening books for a year or so’. Here, the influence of Gertrude Jekyll is inescapable. Winterbourne is filled with Jekyllian detail inspired by her 1899 classic Wood and Garden. Each month, we follow in Margaret’s footsteps to see how the…

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  • Winterbourne House, photograph by Peter Toolan, Snapshot Peter Toolan,, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Peter Toolan

    Peter Toolan is a retired High School Teacher from Redditch and has been an active member of his local U3A Digital Photography group since joining about 6 months ago. Peter and the group visited Winterbourne for the first time in July and found plenty that caught the eye. “I have always enjoyed taking photos on…

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  • Eryngium in the Walled Garden, Now and Then July, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: July

    When Margaret Nettlefold planned the garden at Winterbourne, daughter Valerie revealed that her mother ‘lived with gardening books for a year or so’. Here, the influence of Gertrude Jekyll is inescapable. Winterbourne is filled with Jekyllian detail inspired by her 1899 classic Wood and Garden. Each month, we follow in Margaret’s footsteps to see how the…

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