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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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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I've been looking back at the 2025 veg gardening trials, the successes and the failures. It was a challenging season! Read about what I grew on the blog: bit.ly/4jEkVpQ
(Seed given. Not paid.)
#UKGardening #Cotswolds #gyo #gardening 🌱
(Seed given. Not paid.)
#UKGardening #Cotswolds #gyo #gardening 🌱
January 14, 2026 at 7:25 AM
I've been looking back at the 2025 veg gardening trials, the successes and the failures. It was a challenging season! Read about what I grew on the blog: bit.ly/4jEkVpQ
(Seed given. Not paid.)
#UKGardening #Cotswolds #gyo #gardening 🌱
(Seed given. Not paid.)
#UKGardening #Cotswolds #gyo #gardening 🌱
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🌱 I was slow to the Coleus party but I'm now a devotee
❤️🧡💗💜💚
❤️🧡💗💜💚
January 14, 2026 at 12:08 AM
🌱 I was slow to the Coleus party but I'm now a devotee
❤️🧡💗💜💚
❤️🧡💗💜💚
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My love affair with the trees of Bushy Park on misty winter mornings continues ...🌳🥰🌳
@theroyalparks.bsky.social
#BushyPark
#treescapes
@theroyalparks.bsky.social
#BushyPark
#treescapes
January 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM
My love affair with the trees of Bushy Park on misty winter mornings continues ...🌳🥰🌳
@theroyalparks.bsky.social
#BushyPark
#treescapes
@theroyalparks.bsky.social
#BushyPark
#treescapes
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A reminder that our free 'Winter Warmer' online talks return on Thursday, 15 January 🙌
Our first talk - Queering Ecology: Challenging Norms in Nature - shares the true spectrum of diversity in the natural world and how we shape our understanding of it 🦉
Book your place ▶️ https://bit.ly/4qNBsdA.
Our first talk - Queering Ecology: Challenging Norms in Nature - shares the true spectrum of diversity in the natural world and how we shape our understanding of it 🦉
Book your place ▶️ https://bit.ly/4qNBsdA.
January 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
A reminder that our free 'Winter Warmer' online talks return on Thursday, 15 January 🙌
Our first talk - Queering Ecology: Challenging Norms in Nature - shares the true spectrum of diversity in the natural world and how we shape our understanding of it 🦉
Book your place ▶️ https://bit.ly/4qNBsdA.
Our first talk - Queering Ecology: Challenging Norms in Nature - shares the true spectrum of diversity in the natural world and how we shape our understanding of it 🦉
Book your place ▶️ https://bit.ly/4qNBsdA.
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Just Colours. Ask if you want to know a plant. This is our front rockery garden near the house.
January 14, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Just Colours. Ask if you want to know a plant. This is our front rockery garden near the house.
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Twelfth Night, usually 5 January (though some regard it as the 6th), was a traditional time to wassail the apple trees in England’s cider counties, singing and blessing them for luck and a good crop. In parts of the West Country, Old Twelfth Night is still kept on 17 January.
January 5, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Twelfth Night, usually 5 January (though some regard it as the 6th), was a traditional time to wassail the apple trees in England’s cider counties, singing and blessing them for luck and a good crop. In parts of the West Country, Old Twelfth Night is still kept on 17 January.
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🌱 #thicktrunkTuesday
There is a collection of different Eucalyptus trees on Wisley’s Battleston Hill. This is just one of them.
Another wet day so I will be stitching.
There is a collection of different Eucalyptus trees on Wisley’s Battleston Hill. This is just one of them.
Another wet day so I will be stitching.
January 13, 2026 at 8:49 AM
🌱 #thicktrunkTuesday
There is a collection of different Eucalyptus trees on Wisley’s Battleston Hill. This is just one of them.
Another wet day so I will be stitching.
There is a collection of different Eucalyptus trees on Wisley’s Battleston Hill. This is just one of them.
Another wet day so I will be stitching.
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January 13, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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Timeline cleanse in anticipation of a new season of #TulipTuesday. I planted a variety of 100 new bulbs. Stand by! #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #OnlyBeautifulThings #Photography
January 13, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Timeline cleanse in anticipation of a new season of #TulipTuesday. I planted a variety of 100 new bulbs. Stand by! #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #OnlyBeautifulThings #Photography
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Huge thanks to 3,652 of you amazing #CitizenScientists who went out hunting for #NewYearPlantHunt!
You sent us >25K records of an astonishing 663 different wildflower spp. blooming across Britain & Ireland
Headlines in our infographic 👇
More details on our 2026 Results page: bsbi.org/take-part/ac...
You sent us >25K records of an astonishing 663 different wildflower spp. blooming across Britain & Ireland
Headlines in our infographic 👇
More details on our 2026 Results page: bsbi.org/take-part/ac...
January 13, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Huge thanks to 3,652 of you amazing #CitizenScientists who went out hunting for #NewYearPlantHunt!
You sent us >25K records of an astonishing 663 different wildflower spp. blooming across Britain & Ireland
Headlines in our infographic 👇
More details on our 2026 Results page: bsbi.org/take-part/ac...
You sent us >25K records of an astonishing 663 different wildflower spp. blooming across Britain & Ireland
Headlines in our infographic 👇
More details on our 2026 Results page: bsbi.org/take-part/ac...
It’s once again that time of year to cut back those Epimediums so that we get a chance to see those flowers in a couple weeks.
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
January 13, 2026 at 4:22 PM
It’s once again that time of year to cut back those Epimediums so that we get a chance to see those flowers in a couple weeks.
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
I love the flowers on Mexican Orange Blossom, and the foliage on this variety (Choisya × dewitteana 'Aztec Pearl') is cool as well. #TinyFlowerTuesday
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
January 13, 2026 at 1:45 PM
I love the flowers on Mexican Orange Blossom, and the foliage on this variety (Choisya × dewitteana 'Aztec Pearl') is cool as well. #TinyFlowerTuesday
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
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🌧️ Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
Probably something which a lot of spiders are thinking right now with how the weather is today.
📸 Sarah Gordon captured this wonderful image during a Help Nature Thrive session in the parks.
Probably something which a lot of spiders are thinking right now with how the weather is today.
📸 Sarah Gordon captured this wonderful image during a Help Nature Thrive session in the parks.
January 13, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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The crisp morning sunlight!🌱
January 13, 2026 at 10:37 AM
The crisp morning sunlight!🌱
Not exactly a #ThickTrunkTuesday contender, but I love this kink in this tree’s trunk. A great example of how a tree will bend at extreme angles to find a gap between other trees.
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
January 13, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Not exactly a #ThickTrunkTuesday contender, but I love this kink in this tree’s trunk. A great example of how a tree will bend at extreme angles to find a gap between other trees.
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
An amazing evening at the Belgravia and Knightsbridge Community Awards
January 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
An amazing evening at the Belgravia and Knightsbridge Community Awards
Shower and change at work tonight as we’re off to the Belgravia and Knightsbridge Community Awards at the Peninsula Hotel. How do I look? 🥴
January 12, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Shower and change at work tonight as we’re off to the Belgravia and Knightsbridge Community Awards at the Peninsula Hotel. How do I look? 🥴
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Hairy Curtain Crust, Stereum hirsutum.
NWT Sweet Briar Marshes, Norwich, today.
www.first-nature.com/fungi/stereu...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
NWT Sweet Briar Marshes, Norwich, today.
www.first-nature.com/fungi/stereu...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
January 12, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Hairy Curtain Crust, Stereum hirsutum.
NWT Sweet Briar Marshes, Norwich, today.
www.first-nature.com/fungi/stereu...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
NWT Sweet Briar Marshes, Norwich, today.
www.first-nature.com/fungi/stereu...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
January 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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Crimped Gill, Plicatura crispa.
On dead Silver Birch logs at NWT Sweet Briar Marshes, Norwich, today.
www.naturespot.org/species/crim...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
On dead Silver Birch logs at NWT Sweet Briar Marshes, Norwich, today.
www.naturespot.org/species/crim...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
January 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Crimped Gill, Plicatura crispa.
On dead Silver Birch logs at NWT Sweet Briar Marshes, Norwich, today.
www.naturespot.org/species/crim...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
On dead Silver Birch logs at NWT Sweet Briar Marshes, Norwich, today.
www.naturespot.org/species/crim...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
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Yellow Brain, Tremella mesenterica.
NWT Sweet Briar Marshes, Norwich, today.
Parasitic on Peniophora crust fungi (themselves growing on dead wood).
www.first-nature.com/fungi/tremel...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
NWT Sweet Briar Marshes, Norwich, today.
Parasitic on Peniophora crust fungi (themselves growing on dead wood).
www.first-nature.com/fungi/tremel...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
January 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Yellow Brain, Tremella mesenterica.
NWT Sweet Briar Marshes, Norwich, today.
Parasitic on Peniophora crust fungi (themselves growing on dead wood).
www.first-nature.com/fungi/tremel...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
NWT Sweet Briar Marshes, Norwich, today.
Parasitic on Peniophora crust fungi (themselves growing on dead wood).
www.first-nature.com/fungi/tremel...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
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January 12, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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From 2012...
The Tattooed Gardener: Do Gardener's Hibernate?
thetattooedgardener.com/do-gardeners... #gardening #garden #humour
The Tattooed Gardener: Do Gardener's Hibernate?
thetattooedgardener.com/do-gardeners... #gardening #garden #humour
Do Gardeners Hibernate? - The Tattooed Gardener
Twitter Facebook “Winter came down to our home one night Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow, And we, we were children once again.” ~Bill Morgan Jr. Ah the Beginning of December …....
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January 12, 2026 at 1:36 PM
From 2012...
The Tattooed Gardener: Do Gardener's Hibernate?
thetattooedgardener.com/do-gardeners... #gardening #garden #humour
The Tattooed Gardener: Do Gardener's Hibernate?
thetattooedgardener.com/do-gardeners... #gardening #garden #humour
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Read the article here: https://learndirt.com/learn/leaf-mold/
January 12, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Read the article here: https://learndirt.com/learn/leaf-mold/
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Winston Howes lost his wife. He planted thousands of oak trees in a six-acre field
Once it was completed he put a seat in the field, overlooking the hill near where she used to live. He didn't tell anyone
Photo: SWNS
Once it was completed he put a seat in the field, overlooking the hill near where she used to live. He didn't tell anyone
Photo: SWNS
January 12, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Winston Howes lost his wife. He planted thousands of oak trees in a six-acre field
Once it was completed he put a seat in the field, overlooking the hill near where she used to live. He didn't tell anyone
Photo: SWNS
Once it was completed he put a seat in the field, overlooking the hill near where she used to live. He didn't tell anyone
Photo: SWNS