• The very best of autumn in the garden

    The first day of autumn is just one week away and the garden is already beginning to transform into a comforting sea of rich reds, oranges and browns. Whilst the simple pleasures of autumn can be easily found in the crunch of leaves underfoot, or the fragrant smell of the garden after rainfall, we’ve put…

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  • Squashes in the House, photograph by Maggie Bucknall, The Week That Was, Digging for Dirt, Winterbourne House
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    The Week That Was: 28th October – 1st November

    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 28th On Monday garden volunteer Steve was busy working on a display change in the Alpine House again. This time, it was South African bulbs…

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  • 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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  • Dahlia 'Amberglow', photograph by Eleanor Hill, Now and Then, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: September

    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…

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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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