Winterbourne Botanic Garden, University of Birmingham
Winterbourne Botanic Garden
University of Birmingham
58 Edgbaston Park Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2RT
England
Website
Telephone
Information line
0121 414 3832
Winterbourne Botanic Garden at The University of Birminghamis a 2.4 hectare Edwardian Arts and Crafts style garden on the University's Edgbaston Campus. Winterbourne House was built in 1903 for John and Margaret Nettlefold; Margaret Nettlefold designed the garden, inspired by the books and garden designs of Gertrude Jekyll. Winterbourne was later owned by Harry Wheelock, a Birmingham stockbroker, and in 1925 was sold to another Birmingham businessman, John MacDonald Nicolson.
Nicolson, a keen gardener developed many new areas, including a scree garden. Nicolson died in 1944 and bequeathed the house and garden to the University. The garden became the University’s Botanic Garden and new areas for teaching and plant conservation were developed within the historic layout. Today the garden and the Botanical Centre are a focus for research and teaching in horticulture, garden history and plant conservation, set within the original Edwardian garden of herbaceous borders, terraced lawns, rock gardens and woodland walks.
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Science centre, Environmental or ecological centre, Garden, parklands or rural site
Winterbourne Botanic Garden
University of Birmingham
58 Edgbaston Park Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2RT
England
Website
Telephone
Information line
0121 414 3832
Botanic gardens display collections of plants from all around the world. At Winterbourne there are over 1,700 different plants originating from as far away as Brazil and Japan, many you may recognise.
At home, your gardens, kitchen and medicine cupboards are filled with plants and plant ingredients from all over the world, from the wheat in toast, to the cotton in clothes, perhaps even the place you work is an industry which uses plant ingredients.
At Winterbourne there is a chance to see plants and plant habitats from around the world and to find out about the plant hunters who discovered them. Closer to home, our Botanical Birmingham project highlights and explains those plants in the garden particularly significant to the people of the West Midlands. A walk around Winterbourne really will take you on a journey around the world!
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Winterbourne Botanic Garden
University of Birmingham
58 Edgbaston Park Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2RT
England
Website
Telephone
Information line
0121 414 3832
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