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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴

@stuartbourne.bsky.social
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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: bournetogarden.substack.com

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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 12h
Autumn has arrived…. 🍂🍂🍂 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 13h
#ThickTrunkTuesday #FungiFriends #Trees #Mushrooms #Fungus #Nature 🌱🍄
Cluster of probable sulfur tuft fungus growing around the base of a tree trunk
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The Royal Parks @theroyalparks.bsky.social · 13h
There's something magical about the late afternoon autumn sun in Greenwich Park ☀️ Enjoy these lovely moments captured by our Archaeologist, Andrew 📸
Sun setting behind a landscape framed by leafy tree branches, casting a warm glow over a grassy field. Fluffy clouds are visible in the sky.  A scenic garden pathway leads to a wooden pergola surrounded by lush greenery and colourful flowers on a sunny day with a bright blue sky and scattered clouds.  A scenic view of a grassy hill with several tall trees silhouetted against a bright, partly cloudy sky. Sunlight filters through the branches, creating a serene atmosphere.
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Stevie P @stevieparsons.bsky.social · 14h
One of the most beautiful things in nature, just now. The humble ‘conker’ 🤎
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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 15h
Osteospermum 'Ice and Sky' 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #TuesdayBlue #BlueTue #ColorADay #EastCoastKin
African daisy with white petals and a blue heart
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15h
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "I will not allow it to continue like this. Today I can confirm Angela Eagle will present a strengthened water bill to Parliament. The center piece of that bill will be this. The repeal of Margaret Thatcher's ideological ban on public ownership of water companies."
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Sofiimagines @sofiimagines.bsky.social · 17h
Bells the color blue On Tuesday, hanging silent Above the dark soil. 🌱 #bluetue #bloomscrolling #coloraday #flower #lovelythings
A close-up photograph of blooming Siberian squill (Scilla siberica): three nodding, bell-shaped flowers in vivid blue hang from a slender dark purple stem, against a softly blurred garden background of brown soil and green leaves.

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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 15h
Some Ajuga ‘Caitins Giant’ in the autumn sunshine for #BlueTuesday 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling
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Sabrina Mandanas @sgmandanas.bsky.social · 17h
Good morning. Have a wonderful day y’all 😊💙🦋🌱🦅
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Shannon Walsh @flutterbyflora.bsky.social · 18h
🌱 good morning🩷💚
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h
Every month of 2026 has been warmer than average in the UK. #climatecrisis
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UK weather: Temperatures to hit 26C in burst of late September warmth
Temperatures are expected to rise well above the late September average on Tuesday with a very warm night to follow, as Simon King explains.
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Sofiimagines @sofiimagines.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of my own canna lilies, glowing at sunrise with dew still on the edges. Growing them is half the fun; catching them in the right light is the other half 🍃 🌱 #abstractia #leaves #nature #macromonday #lovelythings
Close-up of a backlit canna lily leaf at sunrise from my garden. Fine parallel veins run diagonally across the frame, glowing in bands of lime green, gold, and orange-red where the light shines through. The left edge fades into deep burgundy-purple, with a single dew drop clinging near the margin. Blurred green foliage shows at the far left.

Photography by Sofiimagines
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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More Silene dioica for #MagentaMonday 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling
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Linda @lindacdolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is who I spent time with yesterday at Wisley’s Hilltop. Isn’t he cute? #birdsof2026 #robin It’s the start of a lovely quiet week although who knows what opportunities might arise.
A robin standing on top of a wooden bench and looking straight towards the camera. The same robin doubled over with its head almost between its legs.
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The Chatty Gardener @thechattygardener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As usual, this has flowered too late to really appreciate it. Read about this week's Cheering Up Mondays flower here: buff.ly/bXg0Fsx #UKGardening #CheeringUpMondays #MondayMotivation #photography #BloomScrolling #flowers
Yellow ginger lily.
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RG.Forrest @rgforrest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Iris foetidissima, aka (stinking Iris) aka (Roast beef plant) taken Hampshire Nee forest. #wildflowerhour
Image of stinking iris wildflower
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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I disliked him before, I dislike him even more now. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Monty Don says he may have to let go of his gardeners after leaving BBC
Presenter reveals corporation has been paying part of their salaries to keep his Herefordshire garden camera-ready
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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Time to harvest this year’s pumpkins at the #Allotment, and we are lucky to still have some courgettes and tomatoes to pick too. 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #VegetableGarden
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Dongmei Li @dongmei960.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Aster #photography #flowers #plants #blossom #BloomScrolling
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Medway scene
River and oak
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Several arrested and properties evacuated after a major incident declared near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire Arrested men taken into custody on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act news.sky.com/story/follow...
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Follow latest: Major incident declared and number of properties evacuated in Gloucestershire after men arrested on suspicion of offences under Explosives Act
A number of properties in Whelford, Gloucestershire, have been evacuated following a major incident being declared. Several men have been arrested on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act. Sp...
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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nasturtiums. Peppery 🌱 #SundayYellow #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #ColorADay #ECK
Yellow Nasturtium flowers
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eddiephotos.bsky.social @eddiephotos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#SundayYellow #Butterflies #Pollinators A female common blue butterfly nectaring on yellow ragwort during the summer time.
#SundayYellow #Butterflies #Pollinators  A female common blue butterfly nectaring on yellow ragwort from the summer time.
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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you want to see me show you how I used to make a winter pose fit for a Queen’s table, then check out the latest episode I filmed for Channel 5 🌱 #UKGardening www.channel5.com/show/bucking...
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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mahonias coming into flower at GrosvenorSquare for #SundayYellow 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling
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Linda @lindacdolan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🌱 #SundayYellow Full of pollen but looking for more! I took this picture last Sunday in Wisley’s Hilltop World Food Garden. I wonder what I will see today during my volunteering session. It’s set to be a beautiful autumn day with perhaps a chance of some rain later. 🤞
A bee covered with pollen hovering above a courgette flower.
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Paul @paulst001.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Potentilla flowers from our garden this afternoon
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Linda @lindacdolan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🌱 #sixonSaturday from my tiny garden. It has been such a busy week! Two training sessions at Wisley and a Volunteer’s Thank You tea party, three trips to London and a visit to very special friends with lunch on their roof garden. Not much time to garden but the flowers keep coming.
A collage of six pictures from my tiny garden this week. The large pictures are white Cosmos and red Salvia. The top small pictures are white Gaura which has been renamed Oenothera and tiny pink Abelia flowers. The bottom pictures are a red Penstemon and white Alyssum which suffered in the heat and drought but is flowering now.
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Ken Hartley 🌱🏋️‍♂️ @milhart66ken.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good morning friends. How are we? Well I hope. Sending a hug to those feeling less than well. Here’s my #SixOnSaturday Some of the roses are giving me a nice late flush of flowers. I hope the day is kind to you. #gardening #gardeninglife
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Andie Hill @andiehill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of the male flowers on the begonia cutting. Such a glorious colour. #Bloomscrolling #GardensHour
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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today’s #SixOnSaturday include a Canna, Hoverfly on a Hesperis, Hydrangea, Bellflower and two Geraniums. Have a great weekend 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The magic of an Irish rainforest.
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Graeme Edwards @graemeedwards1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In today's #SixOnSaturday... Scabious, a Fuchsia, ‘Banana Popsicle,' Sedums, Cosmos & a Crocosmia onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/s... 🌱
A collage of six photographs of flowers, comprising: a pale cream Scabious with small flowers opening in a whirl around pale green round buds; dangling purple and white Fuchsia flowerswith long stamens; spires of bright long thin yellow flowers almost resembling small Christmas trees; a fluffy like cloud of Sedum flowers with a striped yellow and brown bee; a white Cosmos flower with a yellow centre; two star-like yellow Crocosmia flowers.
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The Royal Parks @theroyalparks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Summer meeting autumn in the Queen Elizabeth II Garden 💜 Have you been able to visit this fantastic garden?
A lush garden in The Regent's Park displays a vibrant array of wildflowers, featuring hues of pink, white, and purple. A small pond with a boardwalk is visible to the left, and a historic brick building stands in the background, surrounded by trees under an overcast sky.A person stands on a balcony of a tall, brick structure surrounded by lush greenery and flowering plants. The sky is overcast, and there are large trees in the background.   A scenic view of a garden with wildflowers and grasses, framed by lush trees. In the background, the BT Tower is visible under a cloudy sky.   A lush garden scene with various wildflowers, including pink and purple blooms, set against a backdrop of greenery and trees under a cloudy sky. A partial view of a brick building is visible on the left.
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Ravenna Gardens @ravennagardens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A most worthy Anemone to welcome the weekend ('Harlequin Cameo'). Happy Friday everybody! #FlowersOnFriday #bloomscrolling #anemone #flowers #pinkflowers #gardening #photography
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Darran Jaques @darranjaques.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Early morning, gentle autumnal light over the dining terrace borders on this Hertfordshire project. #Garden #Design #Gardening #Plants 🌱
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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Autumn flowers courtesy of Japanese Anemones #FlowersOnFriday 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #BloomScrolling #FlowerFeed
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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hosta 'blue mouse ears' has flowered repeatedly for me this year. Have a great #FlowersOnFriday everyone 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #FloralFriday #PurpleFriday #EastCoastKin
A potted hosta with blue green leaves and purple flowers atop tall flower spikes
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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A lovely special visitor today at #GrosvenorSquare
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Linda @lindacdolan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🌱 #flowersonFriday Spotted in West Hampstead yesterday, a huge Oleander bush covered in pink flowers. I used to think it was too tender to grow outside in Britain but I have seen a few examples in London this summer, looking beautiful and coping well with the heat and drought.
A huge shrub overhanging a brick wall and almost blocking out the house behind. It is covered with pink flowers. A close up of the pink flowers. Each one has five petals, flatted on the edge and looking like the twisted blades of a fan. The leaves are long and pointed.
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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gardens are not always about flowers, especially naturalist gardens like #GrosvenorSquare. Here we have ferns, Brunnera, Eurybia, Carex and Hackenchloa all working together. #FoliageFriday 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
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Kent Current @kentcurrent.news · 24/09/2026
Five days after the Grand Burstin fire, engineers fear part could collapse, 90 neighbouring flats remain off-limits, and there is no reopening date. Plus a Conservative by-election graphic ages badly, and Maidstone reaches for the vaccum during an invasion of tiny bugs
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What happens to the Grand Burstin now?
The uncertain future of a Folkestone landmark, plus electoral hubris and an unexpected bug invasion
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minne...
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Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold
Minnesota solar farms planted with native flowers saw native bees rise 20-fold, with bees also pollinating nearby soybean fields.
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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 24/09/2026
Same garden. About five years apart. I’m here so often that I don’t really see the change happening. Then I look back at an old photograph. A lot can happen to a small piece of land when people keep turning up and caring for it.
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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A small white butterfly on dahlia 'Pink halo' 🐝🌱 #InsectThursday #BugSky #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #EastCoastKin
A small white butterfly on dahlia
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Andie Hill @andiehill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Himalayan honeysuckle… what a bonkers plant
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Dongmei Li @dongmei960.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Aster #photography #flowers #plants #blossom #BloomScrolling
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 24/09/2026
NEW – Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK ✍️ Written by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/VpxOLE5
EVs are now up to nine times cheaper per mile than diesel cars. Pence per mile. A chart shows diesel highest at around 21p, petrol at 20p, EV at price cap at 7p, and EV off peak lowest at under 2.5p. Source: Carbon Brief analysis, DESNZ, Ofgem, Zapmap. - (alt text generated by Google Gemini)
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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A hoverfly enjoying resurgent Hesperis flowers #InsectThursday 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #GrosvenorSquare
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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A bit of autumn sunshine at #GrosvenorSquare 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
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