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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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It's amazing the difference a single sunny(ish) day can make. A spectrum of irises and crocuses plus some returning violas finally bringing some spring colour to my back garden this lunchtime, for #SixOnSaturday 🌱📷 #bloomscrolling #gardening

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Six pollinators on Maypops, my last for this series, at least until I grow some new native plants. Passiflora incarnata is native to the southeast US and Mexico and is the host plant for Gulf Fritillary butterflies. 1/2 #SixonSaturday #nativeplants 🌱

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🌱A favorite #SixOnSaturday from last June 💜💛💚

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I've sorted the seeds, am off to put them in seed trays 🌱

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does happy first anemone flowering dance #signsofspring #mygarden #gardening #greenheart 🌿💚🌱

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A bouquet of colourful spring flowers for anyone whose spirits need a lift this Saturday morning. It’s wonderful to know that these flowers will soon be appearing, and brightening our days. #gardening #nature

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Did you hear me squeal? Iris reticulata finally showing some colour. I’ll be checking these daily now. 🌱💚#greenheart #cotswolds

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#sixonSaturday from my tiny garden. Things are starting to happen and I appreciate every small thing. It looks like there might be some sunshine today before rain and strong wind return tomorrow. Fingers crossed that Wisley stays open.

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This is my #SixOnSaturday, and shows how much spring has arrived in London. We have an Iris reticulata, Hazel, daffodil, tulips, a rose and a camellia. 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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It's Crocus time at the allotment. #Flowers

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Have looked at this picture 50 times and just spotted the cute little nugget dusted in pollen hiding within. 🤭🐝 #pollinators #bees #gardening 🌱

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Love finding old photos of gardens so you can compare them to the present. These are taken from 30 years ago, after just a few years from when the raised beds were installed. 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening

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🌱 Good morning🌞 #FlowersOnFriday 💜💚

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After a very cold week, suddenly it’s like spring today. A great day for #gardening Removed most of the verbena bonariensis from these borders, they are lovely, but also taking over a bit too much. I’m giving them to a neighbour. Not tidied too much, because actual spring is still a few weeks away 🌱

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More rose pruning today. I’m systemically going round all our shrub roses, removing all the dead/diseased and any stems crossing each other causing congestion. 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening Before After

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#FlowersOnFriday 🌱 This Amaryllis is just outdoing itself while it is icy and 20 degrees F outside, fantastic!

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And also there is a considerable difference in the colour, ranging from the usual pale lavender to a really fine deep purple. (According to William Robinson, this richly coloured variety would appear to be speciosa). #gardening #garden powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...

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Sometimes camellia flowers go brown and horrible in damp conditions. Other times they look like this… 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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So lovely to see some spring flowers in the Hilltop gardens at #Wisley. Spring is on the way although it doesn’t feel like it today! 🌱 #flowersonFriday

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Iris reticulata 🌱📷 #bloomscrolling #gardening

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Time to start pruning the roses, and first up are the climbing roses on the obelisks. Though they should have been done in November, I wasn’t employed then 😉. The process requires unravelling the stems, and then wrapping them around the frame at an angle to encourage side shoots. 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening

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This week’s article will be on #SpringBulbs. If you want to read it before anyone else, please subscribe to my free newsletter here: bournetogarden.substack.com 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening

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Today's Flighty's plot blog post is Marking time - flightplot.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/m...

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It has been a very cold and anxious night. The alarm to tell me the power has went out sounded at 3:15 this morning and I jumped up to run a propane heater to the greenhouse. Still no power as of this moment. Very cold #Flowers #Gardening #FlowerReport #GardeningFeed #Plants

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The Organic Gardening feed has 100 users now - thanks everyone for joining and sharing such lovely content! 🌱 Feel free to sign up and start posting (see the pinned post for instructions) yourself if you haven't already. Beginners and organic farmers are very welcome, too! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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The catkins on the Purple Filbert (Corylus maxima Purpurea) are looking amazing this morning. 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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