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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱
@stuartbourne.bsky.social
Allotment owner, professional gardener and former grower of royal roses at Buckingham Palace. 🌹

Senior Gardener at Grosvenor Estates London.

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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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Frosty garden view this morning #mylittlegarden #winter
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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What more appropriate plant to share on Budget Day than a Money Tree? Crassula ovata, also known as the jade plant or tree-of-happiness, is said to bring prosperity and good luck to your home, but you must never give the plant away, or your good fortune will go with it! #folklore
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Fab time at RHS #Peat-free conference @ Wisley yesterday. Take-homes:
1) peat-free needs no extra feed
2) but match feed to compost - eg coir = low N high K so feed compost tea but not tomato food
3) we need legislation asap!
Agree? Sign here today: actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
First frost of year here in Central London, although just a light one.

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Now this is a wonderful way to start the day - with @anitaroy1000.bsky.social's vibrant, hopeful @theguardian.com country diary celebrating Transition Town Wellington's five-year-old forest garden.

#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: Once a plain old field, now a thriving forest garden | Anita Roy
Wellington, Somerset: The five years we’ve spent transforming this patch has been recognised with an RHS award. We’re proud, but we’re not done yet
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Almost a #ThickTrunkTuesday.
#Trees #fungi. Birch tree with birch polypore.
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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My rex begonia 🌱🪴

#Houseplants #PlantSky
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It’s vital that when you do any pruning of trees you try and do a clean cut. You can see on this cherry tree and the slight tear on the right-hand side has caused a large amount of sap to come out.

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #Tree #TreePruning
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I started preparing beds at the allotment for next spring by chopping down the phacelia/mustard green manure.
I'll leave it weighed down on the surface to rot down a bit and then bury it under 2-3cm of well-rotted horse manure, I find this works well and it's "no dig friendly".
#AllotmentLife 🌱
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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🍂🌿 Putting the Garden to Bed for Winter
Read here 👉https://upthegardencompany.co.uk/putting-your-garden-to-bed-for-the-winter/
#WinterGardening #PutYourGardenToBed #GardenCare #GardenPrep #SoilHealth #GardeningTips #SustainableGardening #GrowYourOwn #GardenBlog #OrganicGardening #GardenerLife
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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A November ramble: a squirrel scurrying up an oak tree, sloes dusted with bloom, hawthorn berries, prickly burdocks & the last yellow leaves along the hedgerow. As John Clare wrote: “I love to see the old hedgerows in Autumn’s sober hue… through skies of tender blue.” #AutumnWalk
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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For #twoforTuesday, white/pink Bachelor's Buttons amid the usual blue buttons from my back garden this summer
#flowers #bloomscrolling #gardens #nature #naturephotography #photography #bloomsky #flowersky
November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If you could only smell this Viburnum #TinyFlowerTuesday

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Good morning from RHS Wisley #UKGardens
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Guten Morgen 🧡
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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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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November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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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 👇
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
My highlights for November is definitely the vibrant colours on all those autumnal foliage. #GardensHour

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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🔴 Reform UK’s ‘Cost Cutting’ Council Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend

Farage’s flagship Kent County Council, which promised to “reduce waste and cut your taxes” is set to raise bills on local taxpayers, after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget
Reform UK's 'Cost Cutting' Council Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend
Nigel Farage's flagship Kent County Council, which promised to "reduce waste and cut your taxes" is set to raise bills on local taxpayers, after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget
bylinetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Yellow toadflax
The last flowers blooming here in central Minnesota. They are still beautiful, even after several hard frosts.
🌱📷🌿 #flowers
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Such a messed up season, with so many plants not knowing what to do. At the end of November we have agapanthus and kniphofia both coming into flower.

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Rosemary for remembrance. More on the blog: bit.ly/4oMuvsp

#CheeringUpMondays #photography #UKGardening 🌱
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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It's not only wildflowers, birds, or butterflies that bring bright colour to an Irish rainforest.

Fungi add their splash too, like these lovelies on the trunk of a standing dead holly.
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 AM