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Developing our fuchsia border
Each year the garden evolves, and the Garden Team continues to seek new ways to improve areas and planting schemes in the spirit of Margaret Nettlefold herself. During the autumn of 2020, the ‘Fuchsia Border’ was identified by the team as one such area that was under-utilised and in need of dramatic improvement. This 40m…
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Bee-friendly plants
By Head Gardener, Daniel Cartwright Bees – and other pollinators – are so important to the garden and wider environment. We need bees to pollinate the plants we eat and all the other trees and flowers that make up the various habitats needed to support life. Like so many plants and animals, many bee species…
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What’s Happening Here?
Join us each month as we go behind the scenes and ask what’s happening here? There will be sneak previews of projects and events, exclusive news from the garden and plenty of tips and ideas for you to try out at home. The Farmers’ Market On the fourth Wednesday of each month, from September to…
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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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Snapshot: Jeni Neale
Jeni Neale is a former knitwear designer with a passion for watercolour. Now living in Warwickshire, she tutors classes for adults on all aspects of botanical art and regularly exhibits her paintings. This year, Jeni has led a series of workshops at Winterbourne painting plant material collected from the garden. We asked Jeni to tell…