Donna Banta @donnabanta - Bluesky Profile

Wine country hacks: grapevine clippings reused as plant stakes and half-barrels as planters. In other news, it's a glorious fall day in my garden! 🌱 #GardensHour

20.10.2025 20:20 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Fall blooms on Souvenir de la Malmaison and Oklahoma roses. 🌱 #GardensHour

13.10.2025 20:08 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Sasanqua camelia is blooming! #GardensHour 🌱

06.10.2025 20:15 — 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

No bulbs. But this is the last of my hydrangeas. Still gorgeous. 🌱 #GardensHour

22.09.2025 20:07 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0

Last gasps of pink on my hydrangea and coral zinnia. #GardensHour #SixWeeksOfColour 🌱

01.09.2025 20:09 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Yellow and orange! Peace rose from my garden and sunflowers from Cottage Garden nursery in Petaluma, California. #GardensHour #SixWeeksOfColour 🌱

25.08.2025 20:04 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Creamy white potatoes newly harvested! #GardensHour #SixWeeksOfColour 🌱

11.08.2025 20:04 — 👍 33 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Seed pod on clematis vine. #GardensHour 🌱

04.08.2025 20:16 — 👍 37 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 1

Blue salvia, lobelia, violas, and, of course lavender. #GardensHour 🌱

28.07.2025 20:12 — 👍 63 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

Just under the wire. Hydrangeas! #GardensHour 🌱

21.07.2025 20:58 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, We Can Demonize Publicans Even Hitler was nice to his secretary. (Really, there’s a documentary about it.)

Johnny Townsend's latest in the L.A. Progressive:
www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...

30.06.2025 21:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My single word for June: Sunny!
#GardensHour 🌱

30.06.2025 20:05 — 👍 51 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Gypsy peppers and cherry tomatoes will hopefully ripen soon. #GardensHour 🌱

23.06.2025 20:08 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Cheerful sunflowers and creamy white gardenia. #GardensHour 🌱

16.06.2025 20:28 — 👍 39 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0

This has brought joy this week! #GardensHour 🌱 @gardenshour.bsky.social

09.06.2025 20:40 — 👍 29 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Enjoying veronica and the first bloom on my echinacea. 🌱
#GardensHour

02.06.2025 20:58 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Community Fights Back Against Christian Nationalist Anti-Trans Hate Rally The counter protesters themselves numbered around 500. They chanted and picketed, shouted, booed, jeered, and played music so loudly that one counter protester walked around handing out free earplugs.

Johnny Townsend's latest in the LA Progressive:
www.laprogressive.com/lgbtq/christ...

27.05.2025 19:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Shades of blue this week. Salvia, cornflower and delphinium! #GardensHour 🌱

26.05.2025 20:26 — 👍 65 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Lailey's review of Open House 5/5: From the summary alone, Open House sounds like a sharp, darkly funny look at suburbia unraveling. With eccentric neighbors, social tension, and a touch of chaos, it seems to blend humor with deep...

Another 5 stars for Open House!
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26.05.2025 00:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fancy yellow peony! 🌱

14.05.2025 00:09 — 👍 35 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

This is our third year of gardening in this location. So far peppers, cherry tomatoes, potatoes and basil have been winners. Citrus does well, too. We've yet to get any figs, and the plum espaliered against the fence has 3 tiny plums on it. Trial and error! 🌱 #GardensHour

12.05.2025 20:20 — 👍 35 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Spring bouquet from the garden. 🌱

10.05.2025 21:18 — 👍 124 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0

May in the garden. 🌱

08.05.2025 19:48 — 👍 173 🔁 8 💬 6 📌 0

Celebrating May with a visit to the garden at Filoli today. So many roses starting to bloom. Looking forward to seeing the few in my garden as well. filoli.org #GardensHour

05.05.2025 20:09 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

More "then and now" than "before and after." My sunflowers' progress since planting seeds a month ago. I had 12 seedlings, gave away 10, and saved 2 for myself. I have high hopes! 🌱
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28.04.2025 20:39 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0