Donna Banta
@donnabanta
Author of the mysteries, OPEN HOUSE, SEER STONE, and more. Left Coast liberal and exmormon. I live, write and garden in Sonoma, California.
Greetings Gardens Hour! For this week's theme, some blue salvia and purple heliotrope! #GardensHour #SixWeeksOfColour 🌱 #@gardenshour.bsky.social
"Happy Butterfly" dahlia and a yellow rose from Texas. Literally. It's a found floribunda called "Nacogdoches" or "Grandma's Yellow." #GardensHour #SixWeeksOfColour @gardenshour.bsky.social 🌱
Lovely cool whites for a hot summer day. #GardensHour #SixWeeksOfColour 🌱
Red definitely adds pizazz to every garden. Here is a sampling from mine. Hooray for another #SixWeeksOfColour! #GardensHour @gardenshour.bsky.social 🌱
These purple petunias are especially cheerful right now. And a wine barrel works well for my new maple. #GardensHour 🌱
It's May and the garden is bursting! Also I planted this Limelight hydrangea tree last month. I love hydrangeas but have yet to try a tree form. Anyone else have one? #GardensHour 🌱
Talk about serendipity. We were at Lucasfilm HQ yesterday for a screening at the San Francisco Film Festival. Here's my pic of the Yoda Fountain. Notice antique olive tree in background--no doubt levitated and transplanted by Yoda himself! May the fourth be with you! #GardensHour 🌱
It's hard to pick a favorite. But I do love today's image of my Peace rose with an explosion of Cecile Brunner blooms in the background. #GardensHour 🌱
Charming Itoh peony is asleep at night and awake during the day. #GardensHour 🌱
It's only the end of March and my roses and peonies are ready to pop! Early but obviously welcome. #GardensHour 🌱
Not very original, but easy on an old lady's back. Wine barrels come in handy, too. #GardensHour 🌱
An unseasonably spring here in Northern California has invited some early blooms. For example, my Souvenir de la Malmaison. #GardensHour 🌱
@gardenshour.bsky.social Tulips in a nearby vineyard! Also lots of leaves and buds emerging in my garden. One word: anticipation. #GardensHour 🌱
@gardenshour.bsky.social Still enjoying azaleas and snow drops and looking forward to peonies! #GardensHour 🌱
She came in through the bathroom window… beautiful pink camellia blooms! #GardensHour 🌱
It's not time for them yet, but because our house is near a creek, every spring we "make way for ducklings." 🌱 #GardensHour
This January we welcomed snowdrops and hellebores to the garden. #GardensHour 🌱
Not much going on outdoors. But indoors there's the promise of a new bloom on my phalaenopsis! #GardensHour 🌱
@gardenshour.bsky.social Here are more camellias dressed up in holiday white. Hope this shows up for the final #GardensHour! Sorry about technical difficulties. Happy holidays! 🌱
We're minimalists when it comes to holiday decor. However, I did add some berries to our front porch wreath. Also a certain garden denizen dresses up for us every year. Happy and merry! 🌱 #GardensHour
Lots of rain and fall rose blooms in my neck of the woods this week. 🌱 #GardensHour
Ours is not a spa bath. But these houseplants do contribute an air of tranquility. 🌱 #GardensHour
One of this year's final blooms on my "Just Joey" rose and pomegranates from a neighbor's tree. 🌱 #GardensHour
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
Fall blooms on Souvenir de la Malmaison and Oklahoma roses. 🌱 #GardensHour