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Squash, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt

Nov 1

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…

Dahlia display, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt

Oct 14

Monthly Masterclass, Plants

Monthly Masterclass: October

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

Oct 7

Plants, Snapshot

Snapshot: Greenbenchramblings

Malcolm Mollart is the author of a long-running garden blog Greenbenchramblings which is inspired by the garden he created with his wife, Jude, in the South Shropshire Hills. In June of this year, Malcom paid us a visit and took plenty of photographs whilst he was at it. We asked him to select some of his…

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

Sep 14

Plants, Volunteers

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…