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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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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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'm thankful for garden helpers💚🐞🐛 #gardening
November 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🌱I'm thankful for garden helpers💚🐞🐛 #gardening
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Thanksgiving Guests Freeze In Disbelief After Teenager Informs Them Of Native American Genocide https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-guests-freeze-in-disbelief-after-teenager-1848076742/
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Thanksgiving Guests Freeze In Disbelief After Teenager Informs Them Of Native American Genocide https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-guests-freeze-in-disbelief-after-teenager-1848076742/
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The stunning goldcrest is so tiny it weighs just five grams – about the same as a 20p coin!
It may be the UK’s smallest bird, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in high energy. Goldcrests flit through tree branches, rarely staying still for more than a second.
📷 Mark Singleton
It may be the UK’s smallest bird, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in high energy. Goldcrests flit through tree branches, rarely staying still for more than a second.
📷 Mark Singleton
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The stunning goldcrest is so tiny it weighs just five grams – about the same as a 20p coin!
It may be the UK’s smallest bird, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in high energy. Goldcrests flit through tree branches, rarely staying still for more than a second.
📷 Mark Singleton
It may be the UK’s smallest bird, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in high energy. Goldcrests flit through tree branches, rarely staying still for more than a second.
📷 Mark Singleton
Out with the team today doing our main rose pruning session. We’ve moved to a single prune in autumn, as the warm winters allow the roses to start growing as soon as it warms up in early spring.
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #RosePruning
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #RosePruning
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Out with the team today doing our main rose pruning session. We’ve moved to a single prune in autumn, as the warm winters allow the roses to start growing as soon as it warms up in early spring.
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #RosePruning
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #RosePruning
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‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media concentration affects political decision
Structural corruption and the rise of “conduits for unelected power” are reshaping British politics, according to a stark report from the Equality Trust.
Unelected influence has surged over the past two decades, the report claims, driven by the growing political clout of the ultra-rich and the institutions that enable it. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
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Amazing sky in Liverpool today
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Amazing sky in Liverpool today
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November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Good Thursday🍂 #thursdayvibes @pexelsofficial.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Good Thursday🍂 #thursdayvibes @pexelsofficial.bsky.social
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Take a breather this busy season with plenty of ideas and inspiration to get out into the garden – only in our December issue, available in stores and online now: https://bit.ly/489zQ5S
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Take a breather this busy season with plenty of ideas and inspiration to get out into the garden – only in our December issue, available in stores and online now: https://bit.ly/489zQ5S
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Job two: leaves, pruning , weeding and mowing .🇬🇧🌱
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Job two: leaves, pruning , weeding and mowing .🇬🇧🌱
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Tonight we're celebrating 10 years of Rewilding Britain (@rewildingbritain.org.uk). I don't think I've ever come across an organisation which has shifted both public attitudes and tangible outcomes on an issue so fast. I'm proud to be associated.
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Tonight we're celebrating 10 years of Rewilding Britain (@rewildingbritain.org.uk). I don't think I've ever come across an organisation which has shifted both public attitudes and tangible outcomes on an issue so fast. I'm proud to be associated.
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“Magical things happen every day, if we allow it. Think of daylight, of the stars at night, a flower. A dandelion is a miracle.” - P. L. Travers (1899-1996). #Thanksgiving #nature
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
“Magical things happen every day, if we allow it. Think of daylight, of the stars at night, a flower. A dandelion is a miracle.” - P. L. Travers (1899-1996). #Thanksgiving #nature
In this week’s article I will be answering your gardening questions, and talking about propagating bamboo, winter plants for hanging baskets and how to over winter geraniums.
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🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
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🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
In this week’s article I will be answering your gardening questions, and talking about propagating bamboo, winter plants for hanging baskets and how to over winter geraniums.
You read it before anyone else by subscribing here:
bournetogarden.substack.com
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
You read it before anyone else by subscribing here:
bournetogarden.substack.com
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
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‘A win for nature and people’: Elizabeth line soil used to create Essex bird haven
‘A win for nature and people’: Elizabeth line soil used to create Essex bird haven
A record 39,000 birds are overwintering on Wallasea island wetlands thanks to soil transported from London tunnels
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
‘A win for nature and people’: Elizabeth line soil used to create Essex bird haven
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Today’s budget was botched.
We needed a real growth budget, and this wasn’t it.
We needed a real growth budget, and this wasn’t it.
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Today’s budget was botched.
We needed a real growth budget, and this wasn’t it.
We needed a real growth budget, and this wasn’t it.
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🚨BREXIT BUDGET🚨
Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal."
"Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."
Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal."
"Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🚨BREXIT BUDGET🚨
Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal."
"Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."
Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal."
"Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."
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Carved tree sculpture of an owl, by Hollingworth lake in Rochdale 🌱🍄🌳
#WaterWednesday #FungiFriends #Nature #Autumn #EastCoastKin
#WaterWednesday #FungiFriends #Nature #Autumn #EastCoastKin
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Carved tree sculpture of an owl, by Hollingworth lake in Rochdale 🌱🍄🌳
#WaterWednesday #FungiFriends #Nature #Autumn #EastCoastKin
#WaterWednesday #FungiFriends #Nature #Autumn #EastCoastKin
With the temperature consistently low, it’s time to give the yew hedges a final trim so they are neat and tidy over winter.
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
With the temperature consistently low, it’s time to give the yew hedges a final trim so they are neat and tidy over winter.
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
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Both of these I grow, but I must confess with shame that the red chokeberry was unfamiliar until someone recently brought me a branch. It flamed as red as a cherry. I think it probably ought to be planted in a clump, say half a dozen— #gardening
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Both of these I grow, but I must confess with shame that the red chokeberry was unfamiliar until someone recently brought me a branch. It flamed as red as a cherry. I think it probably ought to be planted in a clump, say half a dozen— #gardening
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Cost of extending the fuel duty cut plus cancelled uprating next year: £2.4 billion.
Cost of freezing rail fares next year: £145 million.
Sixteen times more expensive to maintain the fuel duty cut/freeze than to freeze rail fares
Imagine how much fares could be *cut* by ending car fuel subsidies.
Cost of freezing rail fares next year: £145 million.
Sixteen times more expensive to maintain the fuel duty cut/freeze than to freeze rail fares
Imagine how much fares could be *cut* by ending car fuel subsidies.
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Cost of extending the fuel duty cut plus cancelled uprating next year: £2.4 billion.
Cost of freezing rail fares next year: £145 million.
Sixteen times more expensive to maintain the fuel duty cut/freeze than to freeze rail fares
Imagine how much fares could be *cut* by ending car fuel subsidies.
Cost of freezing rail fares next year: £145 million.
Sixteen times more expensive to maintain the fuel duty cut/freeze than to freeze rail fares
Imagine how much fares could be *cut* by ending car fuel subsidies.
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Tory front benches equally furious at a tax on mansions and hundreds of thousands of kids being pulled out of poverty. Shameful stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Tory front benches equally furious at a tax on mansions and hundreds of thousands of kids being pulled out of poverty. Shameful stuff.
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Nov ‘53 The red leaves have nearly all gone now. The Liquidambar still retains some in a variegation of red-and-green; they cling on for so long that they might be glued on. #gardening
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Nov ‘53 The red leaves have nearly all gone now. The Liquidambar still retains some in a variegation of red-and-green; they cling on for so long that they might be glued on. #gardening
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"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"