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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱
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Allotment owner, professional gardener and former grower of royal roses at Buckingham Palace. 🌹

Senior Gardener at Grosvenor Estates London.

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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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That iridescent metallic shine on the fruit bodies of the White-footed Slime are so cool!

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/2, ISO 400
Stack of 8 images
8/29/25
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

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Like tiny alien trees, strange cylinders with a smooth and metallic-like surface standing on short white stalks grow along decaying wood. They reflect a range of colors from purple, to blue, and green. The background of the photo is a combination of soft dark and light green from distant plants. These little things are about 1mm tall.
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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A fungus photo a day: one tiny little scalycap/Pholiota, the cap is about the size of a small hazelnut. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
A Norway maple shining like gold in the sunshine yesterday 🌱🌳

#ForestFriday #Trees #Autumn #Nature #TreeClub #EastCoastKin
Yellow foliage against bluesky
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Not sure if #FruityFriday is a thing, but check out this seed head from a Magnolia grandiflora

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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the-independent.com
Megyn Kelly slammed for questioning if Jeffrey Epstein was really a pedophile: ‘He was into the barely legal type’
Megyn Kelly slammed for questioning if Jeffrey Epstein was really a pedophile
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
Friday fungus 🌱🍄

#FungiFriends #FungiFriday #Mushrooms #Nature #Autumn
Cluster of small mushrooms, possibly some kind of mottlegill, next to what looks like a carrot seedling in a presumably recently manured vegetable plot
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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mikeinoly.bsky.social
Lovely color blend on Siberian #iris 'Three Hand Star'. 🌱
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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downtoearthalan.bsky.social
In spite of the grey skies today Cotoneaster horizontals - growing out of the top of a wall - is bright and cheerful!
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Dahlia 'The Phantom'. Have a fantastic #FlowersOnFriday everyone!

#Bloomscrolling #FloralFriday #EastCoastKin #FlowerPhotography #Gardening #GardenersWorld
anemone type dahlia, featuring a central cluster of ruffled petals surrounded by a ring of larger, flatter ray petals.
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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downtoearthalan.bsky.social
After the heatwave, lots of Wisteria seed pods.
They are covered in fine hairs - not frost!
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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gretaknits.bsky.social
For #FlowersOnFriday 🌱
More camellias, despite the roller coaster temperatures and drought!
Magenta pink camellia blossoms weigh down a branch of glossy green leaves. Fallen autumn leaves can be seen in the background.
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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werahobhouse.org.uk
Community energy doesn't just produce clean, green energy but can also bring many economic & social benefits too.

People must remain at the heart of the conversation around community energy so these projects can be used to deliver wider local benefits.⚡
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Zythia resinae (a.k.a. Sarea resinae).

Light orange cups, found in April 2025 on blackened, resinous wood on a dead conifer stump.

Identity recently confirmed by DNA analysis. A new species for Norfolk.

www.outerhebridesfungi.co.uk/species.php?...

#Fungi #FungiFriends
Dead conifer stump (probably Douglas Fir) with blackened resin on one side. Light orange cup fungi, growing on blackened, resinous wood on a dead conifer stump. Identified as Zythia resinae (a.k.a. Sarea resinae). At higher magnification. Light orange cup fungi, growing on blackened, resinous wood on a dead conifer stump. Identified as Zythia resinae (a.k.a. Sarea resinae). Clavate asci containing lots of small, globose spores. Filiform, septate paraphyses. x1000, stained in Congo red.
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Getting one of our areas tidy for the Christmas Lights Ceremony, which includes a temporary Christmas Market. Not feeling overly festive in the rain today 😂
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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thetimes.com
The estate gardens, which feature healing plants and a maze in which visitors can get pleasurably lost, will provide consolation for the former prince in exile ⬇️
King Charles designs new gardens at Sandringham — ahead of Andrew’s move
The estate gardens, which feature healing plants and a maze in which visitors can get pleasurably lost, will provide consolation for the former prince in exile
www.thetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Persica hybrid #rose ‘Eye of the Storm’. Seems an appropriate choice as #StormClaudia makes her presence felt.
Take care everyone. #roses 🌱
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
stuartbourne.bsky.social
So many interesting fungi around now the rains have come. #FungiFriday

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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theguardian.com
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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gardenopus.bsky.social
🌱🎶🎙"Despite all my rage I am still just a..."
OK OK I know, used that one already!😅 BUT...

🎶🥬 "...Kale in a cage!"🙊

Brassica oleracea v. acephala 'Redbor' & 'Blue Curled Scotch'. Brassicaceae
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Behind the scenes of the growing, showing and selling months… 🌱🇬🇧
British Horticulture
Getting those new polytunnels up!
#herbs #flowers #peatfree
November 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Traded a large development tree for a great pot that will suit my Grewia cascade bonsai in the future.
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Left a Grewia cascade bonsai in a light earth coloured tall vase shaped pot. To right a new hexagonal tall pot of dark earth and light clay panels. The panels have botanical designs or calligraphy in black.
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
I could tell you this magnificently autumnal staghorn sumac was in the historic gardens at some stately pile out in the country, but it was actually in the carpark at Aldi 🌱😀

#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders #EastCoastKin #Bloomscrolling #PlantSky
This staghorn sumac, a small tree, has burning orange foliage against a beautiful blue sky
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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At our training session this week Jonathan demonstrated how the stamens react to bees collecting pollen. Hope you can see it too.
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Join our campaign to Trump-proof the BBC
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The BBC is our national broadcaster, we must defend it against those who want to destroy it.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
Strawflowers, xerochrysum bracteatum, native of Australia, often grown as an annual outdoors in the UK but this was part of a substantial bush growing in an experimental hot and dry biome at @rbgkew.bsky.social last year 🌱

#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders #EastCoastKin #Bloomscrolling #PlantSky
A selection of strawflowers with the focus on one with white outer petals and an orange central disc
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM