• The Japanese Tea House now visible from the Japanese Bridge, Photograph by Maggie Bucknall, What's Happening Here?, Digging for Dirt, Winterbourne House and Garden
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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 Japanese Bridge We’ve been busy over the last few weeks hard pruning…

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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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