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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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BBC Gardeners' World Mag @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social · 4h

We asked to see your rudbeckias and now we're sharing a selection of these sunny blooms to brighten up your timeline!

Pictures by: Catherine L Croft, Elaine Aitken, Helen McNally, @katiecoughdrop

A bright yellow flower with a dark brown center, growing beside a ripe seed pod, set against a soft-focus background of autumnal colored leaves.

A European peacock butterfly perched on a bright yellow Rudbeckia flower in a sunny garden.

Image of a vibrant field of yellow flowers in the foreground with the historic tower of Sudeley Castle rising in the background under a clear blue sky.

A vibrant display of Gaillardia flowers, featuring a mix of fully bloomed and seed heads, set against a backdrop of green foliage.

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Christina @just-wandering.bsky.social · 18h

The patterns in nature are amazing. I could look at these Aspen leaves all day.

#fallcolors #aspenleaves #aspen #colorado #naturephotography #photography

Aspen leaves and branches fill the frame.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h

Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site

Tillbridge solar farm will be built in county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has rising support Ed Miliband has approved the UK’s biggest solar farm, which will be built in a county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has won rising support. The energy secretary on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for the Tillbridge solar farm to be developed near Gainsborough in Lincolnshire. Once built, it will generate enough electricity to power 300,000 UK homes. Continue reading...

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Graeme Edwards @graemeedwards1.bsky.social · 1d

The Strawflowers are still doing their weirdly crispy-petalled thing #GardensHour 🌱

A collage of three photos of Strawflowers, comprising two deep pink Strawflowers with a white ring; yellow & red multi-layered petals of a Strawflower; white & pale pink multi-layered petals of a Strawflower with a yellow centre

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Osteospermums have been as reliable as ever this year, flowering continuously since spring 🌱

#GardensHour #Bloomscrolling #flowers

African daisies in four colours, orange purple yellow and white

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 5h

Look, you can't be a frontline social care worker unless you can explain what the dagger in Macbeth is a metaphor for. I don't make the rules.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 9h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 5h

An Aster and Cyclamen looking gorgeous next to each other.

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 7h

Surprise!

No, Kids Weren’t told "They’d All Be Muslim by Year 6”

A handful of parents, a far-right outrage machine, and the damage misinformation does to real communities.

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 8h

African violets 🌱🪴

#Bloomscrolling #TuesdayBlue #EastCoastKin #BlueTue #Flowers #Houseplants

Blue flowers above dark green hairy leaves

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Begonia Maculata 🌱🪴

#GardensHour #Bloomscrolling #Houseplants #PlantSky

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Kent @kentuk.bsky.social · 10h

Reform UK suspend county councillor after complaint

#Kent #BBCNews

🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

Reform UK suspend Kent county councillor after complaint

An investigation is pending into a complaint made by some women into the behaviour of Robert Ford.

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Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · 10h

I’m joining the #TinyFlowerTuesday hashtag this week with a strawflower that took all summer long to reach this point🤣🤣🔎🙌

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GYO #PortlandFrogs #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Autumn

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 10h

But compared with the fragrance of the humble little wilding they have nothing to boast about in that respect.
#gardening
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Joy @joyf.bsky.social · 1d

🌱There’s color even when it rains
#nor’easter #MagentaMonday #Gardens #Gardening #Roses

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 1d

Memories of summer.
#DailyBotanicalBeauty #photography #flowers

A collage of nine bright summer garden flowers and butterflies. Top row: gatekeeper butterfly on purple oregano, white cosmos, blue agapanthus. Middle row: pink sweet pea with bee, pale pink dahlia, white yarrow. Bottom row: pink carnations, peacock butterfly on lavender, pink strawflower.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 16h

More after dark magic in the rainforest with a UV torch.

Some species of fungi are bioflorescent in ultraviolet light, making them glow against the blackness of night.

A walk through the woods becomes a truly enchanting experience.

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Trees for Life @treesforlife.bsky.social · 1d

Our #TreeNursery team has been busy getting trees out to Rewilding Week locations and partner sites 🌱 These wee trees will play a vital role in restoring #NativeWoodlands in places that need a helping hand.🌳

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 4d

Spend time in nature to boost wellbeing:
🌳 Walk in the woods
🎶 Listen to birdsong
🌱 Grow your own food
🌸 Smell the flowers
More ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/nat...
#WorldMentalHealthDay

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

Still plenty of colour in the gardens despite Autumn arriving. Here we have Viola and Erigeron still in flower

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 12h

Amazing from the CEO of Aviva insurance: “We are not talking about this because we are waving a flag about climate or sustainability – it’s nothing to do with that, our business is totally correlated with what happens in the environment” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 12h

Another one to add to your list @markpackuk.bsky.social

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Ed Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Another one falls in Kent.

Reform has suspended county councillor Robert Ford after a complaint was made about him by 'several female members of staff.'

The party said that Cllr Ford refused to engage with the complaints process, so he has had the whip removed pending a disciplinary process.

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

Watching the new Alan Partridge series on the BBC, and I’ve never laughed and cringed as much in ages.

My favourite line is ‘I like Jesus, even though he has heavy Lib Dem vibes’ 😂

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Richard Lewis @z3r0gravitas.bsky.social · 1d

#MossMonday - chill damp dingy October air today:
- Stones, end of our garden, Heath star-moss?
- Thickly covered tree "crotch" around the corner (May).
- I made sealed moss gardens during my 2013 remission.
- Nice patch: bsky.app/profile/z3r0...
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SLR shot, august... Description by Gemini 2.5 Flash: A macro photograph focusing on a dense patch of bright, lush green moss covering a rocky surface in the foreground. The individual, tiny leaves of the moss are sharply detailed. Behind the moss, a large, blurry, light gray rock provides a soft-focus background element, separating the bright green from the muted gray.

Phone pic, on walk in May... Description by Gemini 2.5 Flash: A very close-up, angled shot of vibrant, rich green moss growing densely over an unseen surface, likely a tree trunk or rock. Strong sunlight illuminates the upper section of the moss, creating bright highlights and emphasizing the soft, textured peaks and valleys of the plant, while the lower section recedes into a darker, soft-focus shadow.

SLR shot, same camera when it was new. Weak effort though... Description by Gemini 2.5 Flash: A terrarium contained within a clear glass jar with a metal clasp lid. The terrarium features a visible cross-section of layers, with a thick bed of lush, bright green moss dominating the middle section, sitting atop a darker soil layer and a lighter, sandy or gravel base. A few small, green plants are visible near the back of the moss layer, which is slightly obscured by condensation or fog on the glass.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

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