• The Oak Border, photograph by Tony Bucknall, The Week That Was, Digging for Dirt, Winterbourne House and Garden
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    The Week That Was: 23rd – 27th September

    Go behind the scenes, meet the team and get some great tips for your own garden at home. Join us as we look back at the week that was… Monday 23rd We have been busy potting spring bulbs ready for Plant Sales next year. You can expect to see tulips, daffodils, crocus and snakes head…

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  • Snowdrops, The Week That Was, Digging for Dirt, Winterbourne House and Garden
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    The Week That Was: 18th – 22nd February

    Go behind the scenes, meet the team and get some great tips for your own garden at home. Join us as we look back at the week that was… Monday 18th Horticultural Practitioner Jude kicked off the week by giving our citrus trees their final winter feed of the season. Many of the plants in…

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  • Walled Garden, 6th July 1983, Now and Then June, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: June

    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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