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Greta Knits

@gretaknits.bsky.social

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Reader, writer, gardener, science geek. Open wheeled racing, SF Giants fan since the Willie Mays Days! Knitting complex ideas for more than 50 years. Have been gardening in zone 7b, looks like closer to 8a, now.

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Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 4h

Wishing you a wonder filled Wednesday, Friends 🌱
#RoseWednesday

This peachy pink double bloom rose is fragrant and disease resistant, although a real favorite of deer, so I am deeply grateful to have these blooms. Bred in France in 2006 by Alain Meilland. 'Sweet Mademoiselle' is her name.

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you kindly 😊

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 19h

Most of mine failed in the flood and heat domes this summer. I moved this one to higher ground ( I tried grow bags this year) and it has just taken its sweet time...the blooms are well worth waiting for, though!

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 19h

Today's Rose report 🌱
The petals were falling so I brought the last three blooms of double delight into the house to enjoy the last of their fragrance...

Three fading blooms of double delight roses, still fragrant.

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 19h

Me, too! 😊

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 20h

Today's daily dahlia delight...not much progress 🌱

Purple petals beginning to emerge from a yellowish green dahlia bud on a purple stalk.

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

Stunning! 🤩

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

Sigh. That's the WORST feeling 😬 I hope you figure out the culprit!

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

It truly was!!

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

Yes please, more about his and their story. So glad you stay in touch!

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

Wow.Glad nobody was hurt...

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations! The time just FLIES, doesn't it?

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

For #TinyFlowerTuesday 🌱
Glossy abelia still buzzing with bees and other pollinators

The funnel-shaped flowers are white to pink and appear in clusters from late spring through fall. The glossy green leaves turn a reddish-purple in fall.

Glossy abelia is in the honeysuckle family and has a similar fragrance.

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

woot! ✊🏻

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, that's lovely, and so peaceful looking 🤩

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

The Full Harvest Moon was AMAZING! Like full daylight at 5AM
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A photo of the Full Moon at 5AM. It looks like daylight.

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be ordering the @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social book on walking from bookshop.org for Anti Prime day. Care to join me in support of Independent Bookstores?

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you kindly 😊

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

What a great story! 🤗

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

I'm signed up, won't you join us?

Quasi Hatrack @quasihatrack.bsky.social · 5d

Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, is founding a new organization focused on conservation. 🌱

Sign up at plantbabyplant.com

We’re showered every day with the gifts of plants. They provide the food we eat, the air we breathe, and medicines for mind and body. Despite this unearned flow of green generosity, we find ourselves embedded in a political climate and an economic system that relentlessly asks, “What more can we take from the Earth?” This question and its answers have led us to the brink of disaster.

And now we’re being buried in an avalanche of new threats to the lands we love as climate commitments are reversed, the EPA is dismantled, logging is accelerated in the National Forests, and other losses too numerous and painful to list. I’ve been feeling both drained and enraged by the attacks on our values and I bet you have, too.

”Drill, Baby, Drill”, that mantra of destruction and extraction, is an intentional slap in the face to people who value land, life, health, and justice over corporate profits. Well, let’s raise a garden-gloved middle finger in return. I invite you, my friends, my neighbors, my readers, my fellow citizens into a new movement called Plant, Baby, Plant.

Youth and elders, urban and rural, Democrat and Republican, I think there’s one thing on which we can agree: It’s wrong to wreck the world. I think the question that we need is, ”What does the Earth ask of us?” How can we give back in return for everything we’ve been given, and for everything we’ve taken?

With Plant, Baby, Plant, we will counter the forces of destruction with creative resistance in support of life. For generations, Indigenous communities, grassroots organizers, gardeners, scientists, artists, civil servants, foresters, food advocates, and others have championed the work of healing land and restoring our relationship with the Earth.

Our goal is not to reinvent the wheel. It is to amplify, multiply, and carry forward these powerful efforts. Now is the time to help accelerate and expand that work with a groundswell of resistance.

Together, we can spark a grassroots movement to heal land, build community, and transform love of land into social change. Not only will we plant trees and food and wildflower meadows, but we will plant our feet and say “no more destruction”. We will plant a flag, to claim that this is what good citizens do on behalf of Mother Earth.

Are you ready to raise a garden and raise a ruckus? Join us.

—Robin Wall Kimmerer

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you kindly 😊 and it still smells divine!

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

The anticipation...😬

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

Daily Dahlia delight continues 🌱

A greenish yellow dahlia bud has dark purple petals emerging against a blue sky.

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

Today's Rose report 🌱
Like burnt velvet 😍

A double delight rose in full bloom, almost completely lipstick red now, with some crispy brown edges on the petals from the afternoon heat.

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 2d

Stunning! They haven't begun to 'color up' here, yet...