Nandina, photograph by Marie Belfort, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt

Snapshot: Marie Belfort

January 5, 2017

Marie Belfort had worked in events, marketing, and fundraising for many years before joining Winterbourne in 2014 as a Finance Administrator. In-between taking care of our daily income and expenditure, and much else besides, Marie makes time to walk around the garden, always with camera in hand poised ready to take a picture. We asked … More Snapshot: Marie Belfort

Sedum 'Herbstfreude', Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt

A Seasonal Affair

December 8, 2016

In March’s ‘The Opportunist’ we unveiled plans for the development of a new Winter Garden focused around ten West Himalayan birch trees planted in the spring of this year. Following a successful summer in the ground those trees have now begun to establish, and the autumn which followed presented yet another window in which to … More A Seasonal Affair

The Nicolsons' grand-daughter Jenifer, with her nanny, in the Sunken Garden, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt

The Natural Order of Things

November 17, 2016

Horticulture is a pursuit of such breadth and all-encompassing habit, that many of those who practice it may seem as distant from one another as those of different professions altogether. Winterbourne was conceived at the height of the Arts and Crafts movement. Inspired by the movement’s chief protagonist, Gertrude Jekyll, the cult of the herbaceous border is writ large across the suburban villa landscape. Yet, although Jekyll’s ideas have long since endured … More The Natural Order of Things

Squash, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt

Snapshot: White

November 1, 2016

“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 … More Snapshot: White