Terrifying Triffidery: An Infomaniac Garden Photos Event attraction

Yes, it's time for some Terrifying Triffidery!

 

 Welcome to the show!  I hope you weren't blinded by the sun in the previous post otherwise these Triffids will find you easy prey.  I advise observing the triffids in groups of two or three - do not go it alone - and keep well back (you should all be used to social distancing by now, anyway).

 If you make it out alive, I wonder if you can guess the real world plants that these monstrous specimens sprang from?  And which of you lovely Blogorati sent them in?  Please note (and I must channel The Very Mistress here): "The Management reminds you that the Garden Photos Event is NOT a contest", so I shan't be keeping score, and there shall be no points or prizes - this is just for a bit of fun. 

 The plants and their keepers will be revealed in the main event in a couple of days time.

 

 As with one or two things in life, giving the images a poke or prod will see them engorge in size (well, most of them, anyway...).  Don't poke them too much, mind - you're liable to lose your arm!

First up, this truly terrifying Triffid

(which was so scary that I used it for the header image):

And what's this?  Audrey II budding in the hopes of taking over the world?

In a vile take on 70s party food staple the cheese-n-pineapple hedgehog,

is this purple-pecan-on-a-stick monstrosity:

What eldritch nightmare is invading this "Hell"ical specimen?

Life's a Drag...

 

... especially when it's so terrifying that it has to be chained up!

Ribbed.  But for whose pleasure?

 

And this horror show wouldn't look out of place in the depths of the Black Lagoon!

Speaking of black lagoons...  Well, brown ones really...

Hold your nose and try not to fall in!

Is this Terrible Triffid hungry for money or flesh?  Or both?!?

 

The final triffid exhibit exudes a mysterious, yet sophisticated je ne sais quois, and also managed to slink in WAY past the deadline - almost as if it forgot/didn't realise the Event was happening...

(I wonder who could possibly own/harbour such a specimen?)

 

 And there you have it!  Such a bunch of horrible horticulture I never did see.  I hope you have fun trying to guess what these triffids mutated from, and which of you have been harbouring such ghastly greenery. 

 Thank you to everyone who sent something in and made this Garden Photos Event attraction a success.  The main event - 

 

The 10th Anniversary  I N F O M A N I A C  Garden Photos Event

 

 - will begin here in a couple of days or so.  

Be sure to pop back to have a nose around this eclectic collection of botanical wonders.  And if you haven't submitted anything yet, or want to add to your existing entry, please email me your photos in the next couple of days.

~o~

 

 While we're in the mood, let's finish off with a musical number, shall we?