• Plan of 'The Wild Side' by Charlotte Allen, Snapshot, Digging for Dirt, Winterbourne House and Garden
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    Snapshot: Charlotte Allen

    In June Winterbourne Centre for Horticulture graduate Charlotte Allen won Gold at BBC Gardeners’ World Live for a design evoking childhood memories of the past….  “I have been a self-employed gardener since 2010 and in 2017 I started looking into professional qualifications to help me to drive my business forward and future-proof myself. Ultimately I…

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  • Perspective Image, Our Space in Space, Cath Fletcher, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Cath Fletcher

    Cath Fletcher is a Winterbourne Centre for Horticulture student and part time self-employed gardener. Less than a year ago she was in a full-time office-based role. Now, after a dramatic change in career, she’s a silver-merit medal winning designer, who’s ‘Our Space in Space’ garden had everybody talking at this year’s Gardeners’ World Live. “I…

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  • Christmas party, RHS Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Garden Planning, photograph by Darren Rudge, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt, Lolly Gautier-Ollerenshaw
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    Snapshot: Lolly Gautier-Ollerenshaw

    Lolly is 34 years old and lives in Bournville with her husband and 3-year-old son. After a lifetime spent collecting clippings from garden magazines, Lolly finally felt inspired to begin her own journey into horticulture and jumped at the chance to enrol on our own RHS Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Garden Planning.…

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