• Wisteria sinensis 'Prolific' on the Pergola, photograph by Tony Bucknall, Now and Then May, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: May

    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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