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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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There’s some movement on the colour front, not long until the explosion of yellow arrives. #SevenOnSunday

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What a gorgeous sunny day today!! About time too! Here is what’s flowering now in my garden for #SixonSaturday . Hope you got sunshine today too🌞

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Hello #SixOnSaturday

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All the spring flowers coming out for #SixOnSaturday: crocuses, primrose, a tiny daffodil and the first of the big daffodils

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#SixOnSaturday is the frozen flowers edition from the ice storm we had Wednesday night. Flowers covered in a film of ice give them a made out of glass look 😃 #Flowers #Gardening #Plants #FlowerReport #GardeningFeed #Winter #BloomScrolling

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Still quite a winter feel to flowers seen on runs this week #SixOnSaturday

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#SixOnSaturday from the early morning garden.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Hellebore heaven 🌺 #SixOnSaturday

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It’s finally happening!!! Spring bulbs 2025!! 🥳🥳🥳 Crocuses on the balcony today and they still have petals after the high winds yesterday!! #EastCoastKin 🌱🌿💜🌿💜🌿💜🌿🌱 #flowers #Gardening #Ancoats #Spring #photography #FlowerReport #Manchester #MyBalcony #bloomscrolling

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

🌱📷🌼 Veronica Speedwell (Veronica sp., V. repens?) a common spring "weed" that is a pioneer of coloring up lawns in late February. #flowers

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Been having a lovely day wandering around admiring my snowdrops and planting some new ones that I picked up at the recent Hardy Plant Soc Galanthus Study day. 1 Bill Bishop 2 Lucy 3 Bloomer 4 Sarah Dumont

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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 💜💛💚

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

*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

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

#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.

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

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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