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Digging for Dirt

Behind the scenes with the team at Winterbourne House and Garden

  • Members of the Birmingham and Black Country Botanical Society and Warwickshire Flora Group attempt to identify a mustard plant, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Where the Wild Things Are

    For many who visit gardens all around the world it is the lure of the cultivated plant which exerts an irresistible pull. The heavy headed hybrid rose is forgiven all its exhaustive and outlandish cultural requirements in exchange for one brief moment of delicious scent. Yet, those plants which persist uninvited, with little fuss or…

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  • Winterbourne House and Drive, 1952, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Now and Then

    Winterbourne’s broad terrace was employed successfully by architect, JL Ball, as a means of transitioning from house to garden. Ball prescribed a typically understated treatment of the retaining wall and in particular the small verandah which links projecting cross wings on either side: ‘the ceiling and walls inside the verandah to be whitewashed and the…

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    Monthly Masterclass: September

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

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