Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴
@stuartbourne.bsky.social
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/
For anyone not lucky enough to be able to visit Wonderful Wisley, this video shows just a tiny part of it. youtu.be/qF453q8jFn8?...
RHS Garden Wisley. The Cottage Garden. 2026.07 #garden #gardenplants #gardendesign #cottagegarden
YouTube video by Enjoy the Garden
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Natural planting at #GrosvenorSquare means the gardeners have to take more care with our weeding. These Aquilegia seedlings will make great additions, allowing the beds to evolve and change over time. 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #NaturalPlanting
🌱 #roseWednesday One of the roses growing in Wisley’s Hilltop Wellbeing Garden, Rosa ‘Reine des Violettes’. The Wisley team are doing an excellent job job of keeping everything alive and looking good but it’s tough! It takes me 3/4 of an hour and 1000 steps to water special plants with a can!
Beautiful in the morning light. Happy #RoseWednesday 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling
Despite looking brown, this dry and hot weather is good for our species rich lawn. It encourages the perennial flowers to send their roots deeper than the shallow rooted grasses. However, they can’t do this forever so we’re all still praying for rain. 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #GrosvenorSquare
While wildfires rage, oil bosses are laughing all the way to the bank thanks to Donald Trump’s idiotic Iran war. People across the country are facing sky high energy bills. If Burnham is struggling to find the money to help families with those bills, I’d start here.
Sky News@news.sky.com · yesterdayOil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again
An amazing London Plane for #ThickTrunkTuesday, outside the @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social educational centre at #GrosvenorSquare 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
Good morning See you in rosè is such a good rose, it just keeps on flowering despite the hot dry weather A cloudy start to today, hopefully it will stay this way Have a wonderful day 🌸🌱
🌱 #thicktrunkTuesday The pruning of this tree in Mayfair, London caught my eye. It looks as though it is “cloud pruned”. There are so many wonderful trees all over London, giving very welcome shade in summer. Slightly cooler today but I shall stay at home and stitch.
The St James's Park team offering up a spectacular horticultural display with a historic backdrop 🌺
While we are on patterns and whites, look at this double whorl of petals of the bloom of ‘Macmillan Nurse’, a lovely rose from Peter Beales. Stands out strongly against dark green glossy foliage. #GardensHour #roses #gardening 🌱
The first crop of pears from our espalier trees in our garden. 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #VegetableGarden
A tropical looking but very hardy Hibiscus for #PinkMon. #gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #SmallJoys 🌱
Now my strawberries have stopped producing fruit, it’s a good time to start looking propagating them to increase your plants. Here’s a short video on how you can easily do it: youtu.be/x2smckQplBI 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #VegetableGarden #Propagation
How to Propagate Strawberries
YouTube video by Stuart Bourne - Making gardening easier
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🌱 I did some early morning gardening and was joined by a faithful friend who appears every time I am in my tiny garden.
🌱 #magentaMonday Finally I managed to photograph a butterfly on a “Butterfly Bush” (Buddleja). It is a Painted Lady and apparently they fly all the way from Africa to spend summer here. It’s going to be very hot again today so I will be sheltering at home!
Take a peaceful stroll through Bushy Park’s Woodland Gardens and soak up all the green goodness 💚 If you’re in London, why not explore one of the beautiful Royal Parks this week? You’ll love the fresh air and relaxing vibes 🚶
Another garden shot. Echinacea and Rudbekia. 🩷🌻 #Photography #Scape #PNW #PDX #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #Gardens
Popped down to water and picked up a few things #AllotmentLife @debbiem6009.bsky.social @lewisy1993.bsky.social @saamsamm.bsky.social Pickled cucumber and radishes. Dreadful year for climbing beans.
People are just not ready for the consequences of climate change.
Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn
Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue
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