• Mespilus germanica 'Nottingham'3, photograph by Jenny Lily, Now and then October, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: October

    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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  • Summer pruning wall trained fruit, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt, Monthly Masterclass: August
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    Monthly Masterclass: August

    Do it: prune wall trained fruit Step 1 Wall trained or growth restricted fruit trees such as espalier, fan and cordon trained apples, pears and plums should be pruned in late summer exposing ripening fruit to additional light and air. Pruning should only take place once the bottom third of the current year’s growth has…

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