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Digging for Dirt

Behind the scenes with the team at Winterbourne House and Garden

  • Christmas party, RHS Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Garden Planning, photograph by Darren Rudge, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt, Lolly Gautier-Ollerenshaw
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    Snapshot: Lolly Gautier-Ollerenshaw

    Lolly is 34 years old and lives in Bournville with her husband and 3-year-old son. After a lifetime spent collecting clippings from garden magazines, Lolly finally felt inspired to begin her own journey into horticulture and jumped at the chance to enrol on our own RHS Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Garden Planning.…

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  • Narcissus 'Tete-a-Tete' planted along the Nut-Walk path, photograph by Maggie Bucknall, Now and Then March, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: March

    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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  • Edgbaston Pool, Now and Then, Winterbourne House and Garden Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: February

    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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  • Pergola in snow, December 2010, photograph by Jenny Lilly, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Jenny Lilly

    Jenny Lilly developed a passion for photography whilst studying for a degree in textiles and photographing plants for inspiration. Now a professional garden photographer, Jenny regularly returns to Winterbourne to photograph a garden filled with personal memories. “I was bought a pro camera when I was in my 20’s by my late husband, Peter Lilly.…

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  • Carole Patilla's festive foliage display
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    Now and Then: January

    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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