• Edgbaston Pool, Now and Then, Winterbourne House and Garden Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: February

    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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  • Leeks in the Walled Garden

    Snapshot: Snow

    The first half of January was drier than average until, on Friday 13th, the first of this winter’s snow finally arrived. It wasn’t much but that didn’t stop us dashing out to get some photographs of the garden sprinkled with the white stuff. Don’t forget to let us know which is your favourite shot… There’s…

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