• Autumn leaf identification, photograph by Leighanne Gee, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Monthly Masterclass: November

    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

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  • Squash, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt

    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…

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  • Eucomis and Agapanthus Malcolm Mollart
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    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…

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  • Winterbourne House and Drive, 1952, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Now and Then

    Winterbourne’s broad terrace was employed successfully by architect, JL Ball, as a means of transitioning from house to garden. Ball prescribed a typically understated treatment of the retaining wall and in particular the small verandah which links projecting cross wings on either side: ‘the ceiling and walls inside the verandah to be whitewashed and the…

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