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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 · 6h

How many did Labour peak at under Corbyn?

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 9h

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 · 7h

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

Red dahlia with one of its red and white fellows behind it

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 8h

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Alison Levey @blackberrygarden.bsky.social · 8h

Today’s favourite rose - Timeless Purple - the colour and scent of this rose is hard to beat. #myroses #roses #mygarden #gardening

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

Tis the season 😂

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emilytomshep.bsky.social @emilytomshep.bsky.social · 9h

Today’s jobs : mostly leaves🇬🇧🌱

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

A day in the Portland war zone

The Portland War Zone isn't for everyone but at least the chaos is locally sourced.

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Joy @joyf.bsky.social · 14h

🌱 A very sweet surprise 🙌 Hoping today shares a sweet surprise with you too
#Gardening #Strawberries #Surprises

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 11h

My rose ‘Twiggy’s Rose’ is still flowering strong #RoseWednesday

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 13h

Most Reform UK voters back investment in renewable energy:

"Research by YouGov showed some politicians had ‘grossly misjudged voters’ views amid criticism of net zero efforts"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Poll suggests most Reform UK voters back investment in renewable energy

Research by YouGov showed some politicians had ‘grossly misjudged voters’ views amid criticism of net zero efforts, according to investment body.

www.independent.co.uk

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Graeme Edwards @graemeedwards1.bsky.social · 16h

A climbing rose 'Waterloo' is having another flush of flowers 🌱 #RoseWednesday

A large cluster of small white roses resembling mini rosettes

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Shannon Walsh @flutterbyflora.bsky.social · 1d

🌱A bit hard to photograph, but the Leonotis is finally flowering🧡🧡🧡 I love it in bud in the second pic.

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 15h

A day off from work but not a day off from gardening. Popped over to the #Allotment to dig over a bed ready for planting our winter onions in a couple of weeks.

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #VegetableGarden

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 19h

Good morning from Ireland. Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday.

Mist rolls soft through the amber glen,
Where old trees dream of time again.

#ColorADay #RedWed #Autumn #Fall #photography #Ireland #EastCoastKin

misty autumn landscape featuring tall, ancient trees in a golden-brown field. In the foreground, leaves with hints of orange and yellow frame the scene from the upper left corner. A large, gnarled tree stands to the right, while another tall tree rises in the distance amid a faint fog. The grass below is tinged with autumn hues, and a line of scattered stones runs across the slope, evoking a quiet, timeless Irish countryside.

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 1d

Cyclamen maritimum

Read more about the species here…

www.cyclamen.org/plants/speci...

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Greenwings Wildlife Tours @greenwingstours.bsky.social · 1d

Ophrys reinholdii is one of the Mediterraneans most beautiful & elegant looking orchids in our opinion. The best place to see it is Rhodes, where we find lots and with a nice variety of colour & marking, on our orchid tour each spring.

#orctober #orchids

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The Chatty Gardener @thechattygardener.bsky.social · 19h

Need some sweet pea inspiration? I've been looking back at this year's sweet pea gardening trials and which were my favourite varieties. Read about it here: bit.ly/46V5SBZ

(Seed given. Not paid for post)
#UKGardening #photography 🌱 #Cotswolds #SweetPeas

Wooden trug with sweet pea flowers in pink, purple, lavender and white.

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Linda @lindacdolan.bsky.social · 19h

🌱 #roseWednesday One of the roses in the persica trial at Wisley. This one is called Rosa Orienta Djamila and is a real stand out beauty.
It’s a London day for me. Hope the trains behave better than last Friday.

A beautiful dark pink rose with an even darker centre.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 1d

The first year of a gardening job is a voyage of discovery, seeing the garden change throughout the year. Previous gardeners at Beechgrove have made some lovely choices and planting combinations! #autumn #Scotland #horticulture 🌱🍁🔥📸

Autumnal scene, looking through an archway formed by the red leaves of Acer palmatum ‘Osakazuki’ and Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Pallida’. There are other lovely colours of shrubs on either side of the gravel path. There is a lawn in the distance with dappled sunlight.

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Alison Levey @blackberrygarden.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s favourite rose - is it Meteor again? Might be…. how could I resist such a perfect bud #roses #myroses #mygarden #gardening

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat https://theonion.com/u-s-military-carries-out-strike-on-scuffy-the-tugboat/

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat
Pentagon Claims Little Red Vessel Working With ‘Narco-Terrorists’

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Maroochie @maroochie.bsky.social · 1d

Dew on meadow grass
🌱📷🌿 #nature

This is a photo of dew on meadow grass.
Nikon Z5, 600mm, f/6.3, iso280, 1/500s

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

Good to see another politician not afraid to speak the truth.

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