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Allotment owner, professional gardener and former grower of royal roses at Buckingham Palace. 🌹 Senior Gardener at Grosvenor Estates London. You can subscribe to my newsletter here: https://bournetogarden.substack.com/

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · Dec 17

I’ve worked in horticulture for over 15 years, with 7 of them as a senior gardener at Buckingham Palace.

You can subscribe to my newsletter here, where I give simple tips and advice on how to turn your own garden into a royal palace.

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Bourne To Garden - Making Gardening Easier | Stuart Bourne | Substack

With over 15 years of gardening, including 7 years at Buckingham Palace, I can help make your garden fit for royalty. Click to read Bourne To Garden - Making Gardening Easier, by Stuart Bourne, a Subs...

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 1h

Good morning everyone, this week’s #SixOnSunday include Japanese Anemone, Virgina Creeper, Winter Jasmin, a fun fungus, and Rosa ‘Twiggy’s Rose’

Have a great weekend!

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 1h

How do heat pumps work? www.theheatpumpwarehouse.co.uk/how-heat-pum...

A house and a compressor showing how heat pumps work.

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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 16h

Autumn garden joy

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 2h

“Then I sally forth, half sad, half proud,
And I come to the velvet, imperial crowd,
The wine-red, the gold, the crimson, the pied—
The dahlias that reign by the garden-side."
- Edith M. Thomas (1854-1925).

#DailyBotanicalBeauty #Photography #flowers

Collage of nine dahlias in vivid colours: wine-red and white bicolour, star-shaped crimson with gold centre, spiky deep wine-red, bright crimson with bee, crimson and gold pied, golden apricot ball, rich magenta, soft yellow with crimson centre, and crimson-white pied bloom.

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Fred @frdvil.bsky.social · 3h

#sixonsaturday 11-10-25 : hydrangea paniculata, eucalyptus, storm damage, alstroemeria, lemons, and autumn picking 🌱

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 14h

My 10 year old son is learning about slavery at school and produced this artwork to express he’s feelings about it. Really proud with what he came up with

#ProudDad #HopeForTheFuture

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 1d

Autumn colour treescape for #Scape Friday.

#OneHundredYardsFromHome

#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #nature

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emilytomshep.bsky.social @emilytomshep.bsky.social · 17h

Job four: just mowing 🇬🇧🌱

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Mike Rogers @sofaflyer.bsky.social · Aug 13

Roses 'Iceberg' outside my living room window

#RoseWednesday #UKGardening 🌱

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 17h

As someone who lives on street filled with elderly people living on their own, it’s mainly do to sentimental reasons rather than financial. They like living in the house they raised their kids in, that’s full of memories, than to downsize. Even if downsizing could save them money in running costs.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Keyser Lauze 🇨🇦 @keyserlauze.bsky.social · 20h

Good morning my #bluesky friends! It's #ForestFriday, let's see some trees! ✨️💚🌲😁🌲💚✨️

"I walk and I bathe in the calm of this place, I am safe and I am happy in my forest space"

- Paul, Hellopoetry.com

#poetry ##eastcoastkin #photography #nature #islandlife #westcoast #beauty #green #trees #sunrise

Morning light races through the forest to greet the trees with its warmth. The foliage awakened in verdant vibrancy. Green glowing giants growing gradually, giving great gratitude gracefully.

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 17h

Beautiful 😍

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Gregory @dreamwieber.bsky.social · 18h

Fall has arrived in Oregon

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 18h

SHOCKING: England just had its second worst harvest on record.

Farmers are paying the price of the climate crisis while fossil fuel giants keep cashing in.

Someone should tell Big Oil: you can’t eat money!

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 19h

This is the same fungi taken yesterday #FungiFriday

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening

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City Mouse Garden @citymousegarden.bsky.social · 20h

Rudbeckia ‘Henry Eilers’ is just magical in sun or shade. 🥰

#gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #FlowersOnFriday #February2Frost 🌱

Three quilled yellow blooms float in dappled shade above dark green matte foliage with other flowers opening behind them in the distance.

Three quilled yellow blooms shine in the sunlight against a background of deep green matte leaves and ferns.

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 19h

Seasons change with the scenery 🌱🌳

#ForestFriday #TreeScape #TreeClub #Autumn #EastCoastKin

Large oak, leaves turned to rust and starting to fall #ThickTrunkTuesday

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 23h

Gorgeous 😍

Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 23h

They really are, totally blew me away

Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you ☺️

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Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · 1d

#FlowersOnFriday We are expecting a nor’easter this weekend to the point of the Mullet🐟Festival being cancelled last minute🤯the wind💨will break my 12 ft Tithonias so the butterflies are saying goodbye 😢👋🧡

#Flowers #Gardening #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #noreaster #Plants #Butterflies

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 1d

Trump losing to someone fighting to protect democracy and end authoritarianism… oh the irony! 😂

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 1d

The petals on this Japanese Anemone are almost translucent #FlowersOnFriday

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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