• Narcissus 'Tete-a-Tete' planted along the Nut-Walk path, photograph by Maggie Bucknall, Now and Then March, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: March

    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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  • 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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