• Sedum 'Herbstfreude', Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    A Seasonal Affair

    In March’s ‘The Opportunist’ we unveiled plans for the development of a new Winter Garden focused around ten West Himalayan birch trees planted in the spring of this year. Following a successful summer in the ground those trees have now begun to establish, and the autumn which followed presented yet another window in which to…

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  • Ginkgo biloba in the Arboretum, photograph by Carien van Boxtel, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt

    Snapshot: Carien van Boxtel

    Carien van Boxtel is a self employed garden and landscape designer from Zaltbommel, The Netherlands. In November, whilst attending a meeting in the city centre, Carien longed for somewhere quiet and green. Happily she found Winterbourne and plenty of inspiration too. We asked her to tell us all about it.

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  • The Nicolsons' grand-daughter Jenifer, with her nanny, in the Sunken Garden, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    The Natural Order of Things

    Horticulture is a pursuit of such breadth and all-encompassing habit, that many of those who practice it may seem as distant from one another as those of different professions altogether. Winterbourne was conceived at the height of the Arts and Crafts movement. Inspired by the movement’s chief protagonist, Gertrude Jekyll, the cult of the herbaceous…

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  • Autumn leaf identification, photograph by Leighanne Gee, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Monthly Masterclass: November

    Learn how to beat pesky pests, wave goodbye to the weeds and plant perfect plants with our step-by-step guides from the garden team at Winterbourne

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  • Squash, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt

    Snapshot: White

    “Snow-white is very vague. There is nearly always so much blue about the colour of snow, from its crystalline surface and partial transparency, and the texture is so unlike that of any kind of flower, that the comparison is scarcely permissable. I take it that the use of ‘snow-white’ is, like that of ‘golden-yellow’, more…

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