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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.

  • Skunk cabbage, photograph by Maggie Bucknall, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Maggie Bucknall

    Maggie Bucknall was an Insurance Risk Manager for 25 years and later a Nutritional Therapist and Lecturer running an undergraduate Nutrition Degree. Now retired, Maggie is kept busy indulging her passion for nature, photography and heritage, and organising exciting shoots for her local photography group We All Shoot Photos (WASPs). “When I was a child

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  • Auricula theatre, photograph by Leighanne Gee, Now and Then April, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: April

    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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  • 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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