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Gardening in the PNW. Zone 8b. Come along for a gardening adventure. Posts mainly garden-related, except weekends when there will be cats and other stuff. https://www.bloomsandgreens.net

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 8h

Thats good to know. Im saving the seeds now🤞

Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 8h

Looks lovely, thank you for sharing!

Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 14h

🌱 The black cherry tomatoes are not really black but they have a full balanced flavor and just the right crunch. It’s a great snacking tomato. I hope to plant this again next season.

Round fruits on a vine with rusty color.

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𝐀𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐢 𝐀𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐬 @akhateli.farm · 2d

🌱 A fruity photoshoot: the last weird cucumber vogueing next to a terracotta pot - to which its colour-matched.

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 4d

terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 4d

Squeezy is just so SQUEEZABLE. Look at this little boy. Picture-perfect for #Caturday.

My brown tabby rescue kitty (who looks suspiciously like a Bengal) is sitting in his cat tree hammock, butt into the round depression, back legs kicked out to the front, belly exposed. That look... "What? I know I'm cute."

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 5d

🌱 In an increasingly distressing world, a bit of comfort in the garden with the certainty that nothing is permanent except the wheel of time … the sun setting but rising again.

A long sunset is upon us, hold on to each other in the dark, daylight one day …

Close up of a garden at sunset with flowers in bloom. In the background is a barn and an orange yellow sky.

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 6d

Spectacular!

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 6d

Caught this great egret at the exact moment it landed on top of this tree just now.

Orange dawn sky, silhouettes of trees over the water, with a heron in silhouette on top of a tree with its wings upstretched.

Close up of the heron silhouette with its head raised and wings straight out to the sides.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 6d

“The Last Day of Summer”, coloured pencil and watercolour, based on the last hummingbird I saw of the season — a young ruby-throated — before they all migrated. #Birds #WildlifeArt

Coloured pencil drawing of a small green and white bird with its wings forward as it hovers over wild plants and grasses.

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 6d

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 6d

Good luck! I’ve grown their lodi and kuri squash and loved them. Have not tried their peppers.

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 6d

Red inside so no reminder of squid ink.

Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, will try and plant this again next year.

Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 6d

🌱 These are indeed the darkest tomatoes i have ever grown. The midnight roma from Row7.

Reportedly breed for high anthocyanin trait into a paste tomato, ideal for sauces. Semi-determinate, with roma taste but such a striking looking 🍅. I was asked, “Is that a plum?”

Black looking fruits on a short vine growing with an orange flower (dahlia) in the background.

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 7d

How long before they start polygraph on the cleaning staff? 🫣

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d

A frantic, paranoid former Fox News host, Hegseth, orders random polygraph tests for those he suspects of talking to the media. It's a move calculated to further diminish morale inside the Pentagon. www.thedailybeast.com/paranoid-pet...

‘Paranoid Pete’ Wants Surprise Polygraph Tests to Nail Pentagon Leakers

Multiple leaks from the Pentagon appear to have irked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 7d

Potentially a project to push out career officials. State Dept already rolled out an untenured junior officer with limited experience appointed in charge of diplomatic personnel.

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AFSA Statement on Appointment of Lew Olowski as Acting Director General of U.S. Foreign Service | American Foreign Service Association

For Immediate Release April 7, 2025 Contact: Communications Director Nikki Gamer | Cell #: (978) 884-0003 | [email protected] Washington, D.C. – The American Foreign Service Association is deeply concern...

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 7d

Wishing you a quick recovery💐

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 8d

This may be tiresome, apologies, but - once a year I run a subscriber drive for my science newsletter - & it ends tomorrow, on my birthday. (25 yet again!)
So today I'm promoting my sciencey threads, hoping a few of you might peek at my newsletter too.
🙏 -> everythingisamazing.substack.com
First up!

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · Nov 8

A while back I learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can't get it out of my head.

Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry.

Hang onto your hat. This is wild.

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 9d

They are. I got a mixed bag of pink varieties and they are fantastic bloomers. Good reseeders too! All my apricot lemonade came from volunteers.

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 9d

🌱 I wanted to see some blooms from my kitchen window so I planted a 40x10ft patch of cosmos. One year, I had cosmos flowering through November so I’m hoping I’ll have 6-8 more weeks of blooms. We’ll see …

Flowering plants with a variety of pink flowers, evergreen frees in the background, under a stormy sky.

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 9d

Glad to see @duffelblog.com is here!

Duffel Blog @duffelblog.com · 9d

NEW: Shockwaves have rippled across Washington in recent days following surprise orders from Secretary of Defense (and also War and also Pew Pew) Pete Hegseth that the entirety of U.S. military leadership would muster aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on Tuesday. www.duffelblog.com/master-strat...

Master strategist Pete Hegseth to gather all U.S. military leaders in same place at same time

Defense secretary insists meeting is secure because it’s on Google Calendar as “Private”

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 9d

Those inhabitants surely are coordinating their actions and engaging in a riot (of colors). What’s the landscape corps going to do in that war-ravaged corner?

Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 9d

These birds typically shows up in the garden in late spring. They visit the pampas grass, and we are often amused by them looking like pirates sporting pampas mustaches as they fly away with their haul.

Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 9d

Wow!

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