• 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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  • Walled Garden, 6th July 1983, Now and Then June, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: June

    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 the…

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