Darran Jaques
@darranjaques.bsky.social
Horticultural Creative Director | Most things outside interest me.
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• Judge
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Sky tonight as the sun set ..full of saffron and turmeric ..going to be a cold night tonight as its already below freezing
November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Sky tonight as the sun set ..full of saffron and turmeric ..going to be a cold night tonight as its already below freezing
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November 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Urns planted up for winter on one of our Hertfordshire projects.
A mix of tulips, with some violas and wallflowers. Quite simple but when all the tulips pop up there will be little room for anything else.
#Garden #Gardening 🌱
A mix of tulips, with some violas and wallflowers. Quite simple but when all the tulips pop up there will be little room for anything else.
#Garden #Gardening 🌱
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Urns planted up for winter on one of our Hertfordshire projects.
A mix of tulips, with some violas and wallflowers. Quite simple but when all the tulips pop up there will be little room for anything else.
#Garden #Gardening 🌱
A mix of tulips, with some violas and wallflowers. Quite simple but when all the tulips pop up there will be little room for anything else.
#Garden #Gardening 🌱
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My highlights for November is definitely the vibrant colours on all those autumnal foliage. #GardensHour
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
My highlights for November is definitely the vibrant colours on all those autumnal foliage. #GardensHour
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
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Evening all. A Highlight has been the late flowering annuals & perennials. A low? The first frosts arrived late last week & have finally put an end to the Fuchsia 'Delta's Sarah's' flowers, turning the blooms into armless ballgown wearing zombies. Mind you, it was late November! #GardensHour 🌱
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Evening all. A Highlight has been the late flowering annuals & perennials. A low? The first frosts arrived late last week & have finally put an end to the Fuchsia 'Delta's Sarah's' flowers, turning the blooms into armless ballgown wearing zombies. Mind you, it was late November! #GardensHour 🌱
Winter scented shrubs are starting to come into bloom.
Daphne bholua 'Hazel Edwards' pumping out the scent at RHS Wisley Gardens
#GardensHour #Garden #Gardening 🌱
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Daphne bholua 'Hazel Edwards' pumping out the scent at RHS Wisley Gardens
#GardensHour #Garden #Gardening 🌱
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November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Winter scented shrubs are starting to come into bloom.
Daphne bholua 'Hazel Edwards' pumping out the scent at RHS Wisley Gardens
#GardensHour #Garden #Gardening 🌱
@gardenshour.bsky.social
Daphne bholua 'Hazel Edwards' pumping out the scent at RHS Wisley Gardens
#GardensHour #Garden #Gardening 🌱
@gardenshour.bsky.social
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It’s our final Q&A session of the year, as we don’t run one in December.
Do you have any questions to ask the #GardensHour community? Post them below 👇
Do you have any questions to ask the #GardensHour community? Post them below 👇
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It’s our final Q&A session of the year, as we don’t run one in December.
Do you have any questions to ask the #GardensHour community? Post them below 👇
Do you have any questions to ask the #GardensHour community? Post them below 👇
November and some of my plants are just starting to flower.
Correa backhouseana, a southern hemisphere native will flower throughout the winter months.
#GardensHour #Garden #Gardening 🌱
Correa backhouseana, a southern hemisphere native will flower throughout the winter months.
#GardensHour #Garden #Gardening 🌱
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
November and some of my plants are just starting to flower.
Correa backhouseana, a southern hemisphere native will flower throughout the winter months.
#GardensHour #Garden #Gardening 🌱
Correa backhouseana, a southern hemisphere native will flower throughout the winter months.
#GardensHour #Garden #Gardening 🌱
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Hello and welcome to #GardensHour!
It’s the final chat in November, so let’s look back. What have been your highlights? Any lows?
It’s also Q&A week - look out for the question thread coming in a moment…
It’s the final chat in November, so let’s look back. What have been your highlights? Any lows?
It’s also Q&A week - look out for the question thread coming in a moment…
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Hello and welcome to #GardensHour!
It’s the final chat in November, so let’s look back. What have been your highlights? Any lows?
It’s also Q&A week - look out for the question thread coming in a moment…
It’s the final chat in November, so let’s look back. What have been your highlights? Any lows?
It’s also Q&A week - look out for the question thread coming in a moment…
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Lighting shows how important structure is in a garden. Trees, topiary and grasses all bringing their A game.
Just after all the public have left, I have a few minutes to enjoy the uninterrupted scenes at RHS Wisley Glow.
#Garden #Gardening #RHSGlow 🌱
Just after all the public have left, I have a few minutes to enjoy the uninterrupted scenes at RHS Wisley Glow.
#Garden #Gardening #RHSGlow 🌱
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Lighting shows how important structure is in a garden. Trees, topiary and grasses all bringing their A game.
Just after all the public have left, I have a few minutes to enjoy the uninterrupted scenes at RHS Wisley Glow.
#Garden #Gardening #RHSGlow 🌱
Just after all the public have left, I have a few minutes to enjoy the uninterrupted scenes at RHS Wisley Glow.
#Garden #Gardening #RHSGlow 🌱
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#barerootrose season has begun!
We are pleased to support & promote British Rose Growers, particularly indie nurseries: Trevor White, C&K Jones, Pococks, Eastcroft, Cottage Memories, to name a few.
Use them - don’t lose them! 🌱
We are pleased to support & promote British Rose Growers, particularly indie nurseries: Trevor White, C&K Jones, Pococks, Eastcroft, Cottage Memories, to name a few.
Use them - don’t lose them! 🌱
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
#barerootrose season has begun!
We are pleased to support & promote British Rose Growers, particularly indie nurseries: Trevor White, C&K Jones, Pococks, Eastcroft, Cottage Memories, to name a few.
Use them - don’t lose them! 🌱
We are pleased to support & promote British Rose Growers, particularly indie nurseries: Trevor White, C&K Jones, Pococks, Eastcroft, Cottage Memories, to name a few.
Use them - don’t lose them! 🌱
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Lighting shows how important structure is in a garden. Trees, topiary and grasses all bringing their A game.
Just after all the public have left, I have a few minutes to enjoy the uninterrupted scenes at RHS Wisley Glow.
#Garden #Gardening #RHSGlow 🌱
Just after all the public have left, I have a few minutes to enjoy the uninterrupted scenes at RHS Wisley Glow.
#Garden #Gardening #RHSGlow 🌱
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Lighting shows how important structure is in a garden. Trees, topiary and grasses all bringing their A game.
Just after all the public have left, I have a few minutes to enjoy the uninterrupted scenes at RHS Wisley Glow.
#Garden #Gardening #RHSGlow 🌱
Just after all the public have left, I have a few minutes to enjoy the uninterrupted scenes at RHS Wisley Glow.
#Garden #Gardening #RHSGlow 🌱
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A few highlights from tonight's Wisley Glow Preview.
Celebrating its tenth year, RHS Glow continues to bring the gardens to life after dark. 🌱
Celebrating its tenth year, RHS Glow continues to bring the gardens to life after dark. 🌱
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A few highlights from tonight's Wisley Glow Preview.
Celebrating its tenth year, RHS Glow continues to bring the gardens to life after dark. 🌱
Celebrating its tenth year, RHS Glow continues to bring the gardens to life after dark. 🌱
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In the Sumatran rainforest's deepest reaches, strange plants - that scarcely resemble plants at all - blossom unseen. This rarity is Balanophora papuana. We found mounds of it rising from the forest floor like little reefs of coral.
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
In the Sumatran rainforest's deepest reaches, strange plants - that scarcely resemble plants at all - blossom unseen. This rarity is Balanophora papuana. We found mounds of it rising from the forest floor like little reefs of coral.
A few highlights from tonight's Wisley Glow Preview.
Celebrating its tenth year, RHS Glow continues to bring the gardens to life after dark. 🌱
Celebrating its tenth year, RHS Glow continues to bring the gardens to life after dark. 🌱
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A few highlights from tonight's Wisley Glow Preview.
Celebrating its tenth year, RHS Glow continues to bring the gardens to life after dark. 🌱
Celebrating its tenth year, RHS Glow continues to bring the gardens to life after dark. 🌱
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November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Green penetrates even the thickest thickets in today's @theguardian.com country diary by @derekniemann.bsky.social
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: The green in this gully has conquered all | Derek Niemann
Frome, Somerset: The dampness lingers here, and there is no wind – perfect conditions for a total victory for fern, ivy, and, most of all, moss
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November 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Green penetrates even the thickest thickets in today's @theguardian.com country diary by @derekniemann.bsky.social
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
First frost of the season... Foolishly had my hair cut yesterday 🤣🤣🤣
Heading into Covent Garden to do some bulb planting 🌱
Heading into Covent Garden to do some bulb planting 🌱
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
First frost of the season... Foolishly had my hair cut yesterday 🤣🤣🤣
Heading into Covent Garden to do some bulb planting 🌱
Heading into Covent Garden to do some bulb planting 🌱
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This week's cheerful flower has been providing some much-needed late colour. More on the blog: bit.ly/486nNrd
#UKGardening #CheeringUpMondays #MondayMotivation #photography 🌱
#UKGardening #CheeringUpMondays #MondayMotivation #photography 🌱
November 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
This week's cheerful flower has been providing some much-needed late colour. More on the blog: bit.ly/486nNrd
#UKGardening #CheeringUpMondays #MondayMotivation #photography 🌱
#UKGardening #CheeringUpMondays #MondayMotivation #photography 🌱
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November 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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The gift that keeps on giving - the super foliage of Cyclamen hederifolium (last two subsp. crassifolium) looks great for months after the flowers have faded. #fairviewyearround
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The gift that keeps on giving - the super foliage of Cyclamen hederifolium (last two subsp. crassifolium) looks great for months after the flowers have faded. #fairviewyearround
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Good morning and welcome to a new week!
Our featured Spanish tour this week is Summer Butterflies of the Spanish Pyrenees, a tour that offers guests an unrivalled immersion into the outstanding and dramatic butterfly diversity of the Pyrenees. (1/3)
mariposanature.com/tours/butter...
Our featured Spanish tour this week is Summer Butterflies of the Spanish Pyrenees, a tour that offers guests an unrivalled immersion into the outstanding and dramatic butterfly diversity of the Pyrenees. (1/3)
mariposanature.com/tours/butter...
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Good morning and welcome to a new week!
Our featured Spanish tour this week is Summer Butterflies of the Spanish Pyrenees, a tour that offers guests an unrivalled immersion into the outstanding and dramatic butterfly diversity of the Pyrenees. (1/3)
mariposanature.com/tours/butter...
Our featured Spanish tour this week is Summer Butterflies of the Spanish Pyrenees, a tour that offers guests an unrivalled immersion into the outstanding and dramatic butterfly diversity of the Pyrenees. (1/3)
mariposanature.com/tours/butter...