• Polygonum vacciniifolium in the Sandstone Rock Garden, photograph by Victoria Buchanan, Snapshot, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Victoria Buchanan

    Victoria Buchanan is a talented amateur photographer with a passion for macro and the therapeutic potential of gardening and the outdoors. We asked Victoria to tell us all about it and share some of her favourite pictures of Winterbourne along the way… “My background up until recently has been within the student accommodation sector managing…

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  • The Printing Press, photograph by Duncan Walker, Snapshot, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Duncan Walker

    Duncan Walker is soon to turn 50 and hopes to prove that age is just a number when he leaves behind a successful career as an IT Technician in order to pursue his lifelong-dream of becoming a professional photographer. Duncan is always on the hunt for new subjects to test his skills and visited Winterbourne…

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  • Cyclamen hederifolium, photograph by Victoria Beddoes, Snapshot So Victoria, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: So Victoria

    Victoria Beddoes is a Digital Marketing and Communications Officer, professional photographer and author of the award-winning home and lifestyle blog called So Victoria. It was 26 years before the Bromsgrove-based blogger first discovered Winterbourne – and now she can’t stop coming back. “My progression to professional photography was a long journey. I studied photography at…

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  • Skunk cabbage, photograph by Maggie Bucknall, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Maggie Bucknall

    Maggie Bucknall was an Insurance Risk Manager for 25 years and later a Nutritional Therapist and Lecturer running an undergraduate Nutrition Degree. Now retired, Maggie is kept busy indulging her passion for nature, photography and heritage, and organising exciting shoots for her local photography group We All Shoot Photos (WASPs). “When I was a child…

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  • Pergola in snow, December 2010, photograph by Jenny Lilly, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Jenny Lilly

    Jenny Lilly developed a passion for photography whilst studying for a degree in textiles and photographing plants for inspiration. Now a professional garden photographer, Jenny regularly returns to Winterbourne to photograph a garden filled with personal memories. “I was bought a pro camera when I was in my 20’s by my late husband, Peter Lilly.…

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