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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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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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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 6h

All the colours 🍁🔥🌳🌱
#ScottishGardens
#Beechgrove
#autumn
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A colourful garden scene in autumn. A wooden fence with vivid red leaves of Parthenocissus quinquifolia and henryana and Pyracantha ‘Saphyr Orange’; behind is the orange hues of Acer palmatum ’Osakazuki’ and yellow Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Pallida’

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 4h

🌱🌹For the Misuse of a Hashtag on the Wrong Day Department 😅 worked in office till dark on #RoseWednesday - so will burn past all the Thursday hashtags for Rosa 'True Passion' (Ping Lim, 2018) in deep orange-red with excellent 🥶 Winter hardiness & disease resistance. Rosaceae

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City Mouse Garden @citymousegarden.bsky.social · 5h

Not sure which I love more—the delicate tropical-looking blooms or the gilt-edge #FantasticFoliage?

#gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #FeelsLikeFall 🌱

A white and bright purple bloom speckled and accented with dramatic chandelier-like stamen, glimmering deep purple hairy buds, and a background of healthy bright green foliage edged in pale yellow.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8h

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you ☺️

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 17h

In today's @theguardian.com country diary, I spy a robber on my salvias...

#countrydiary #naturewriting

Country diary: Pirates of the patio have found their treasure | Nic Wilson

Hitchin, Hertfordshire: Some insects have evolved a long proboscis to reach the nectar of salvias and fuschias. Some take a cheeky shortcut

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Mike Rogers @sofaflyer.bsky.social · 14h

Today's Flighty's plot blog post is I've been plotting... - flightplot.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/i...

🌱 #UKGardening

I’ve been plotting…

every day so far this week and would have been mostly clearing the flower patches. However the cosmos and pot marigolds are still flowering profusely and there also plenty of buds visible as well.…

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aaaawells.bsky.social @aaaawells.bsky.social · 14h

It’s 42 degrees here this morning, the growing season is rapidly coming to an end. Have to enjoy these guys now. 😀. The Hybrid Tea Rose Tropicana and the Floribunda Rose Our Lady of Guadalupe have a great day everyone @joyf.bsky.social @cabofun.bsky.social @flutterbyflora.bsky.social #Roses #Flowers

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Shannon Walsh @flutterbyflora.bsky.social · 16h

🌱Good morning🌞 #gardening #gardensky #bloomscrolling

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

doomscroll break

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 16h

Took the apprentices out to do some soil testing a potential new bed.

This used to be where a large pine tree grew, and we want to know how acidic it might have become. Luckily it seems we are all good, with a pH only as low as 6.

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 1d

A few followers will recognise this reclaimed area of our second #allotment.

Just look at the Dahlias 🌱 now, in their glory and attracting a serious amount of pollinators, especially ground #bees.

18C and sunny here in North Yorks. Bring it on! 👋👍

Excuse the wheelbarrow, it's an heirloom..

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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful. Here’s one of my autumn roses for you.

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 21h

And yet they are still winning elections and won their highest number of MPs for decades.

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Sharon Moncur @sharonmoncur.bsky.social · 21h

Good morning
Perfect reflections in the Dordogne river at Bergerac yesterday
Off for a wine tasting/lunch today

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

How many did Labour peak at under Corbyn?

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 1d

Pumpkin picking with some brilliant young carers in Fife with @wendychambld.bsky.social and @willierennie.bsky.social, with a few wheelbarrow races thrown in 🎃

Ed Davey, Wendy Chamberlain and Willie Rennie join young carers in Fife for pumpkin picking and wheelbarrow races.

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Dahlia 'Fire and Ice' has produced a rogue bloom with petals that are almost entirely all red, which seems appropriate for #RedWednesday 🌱📷

#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #EastCoastKin #ColourADay #RedWed