The
I N F O M A N I A C
Garden Photos Event
2021 Finale
Yes, we have reached the end of this year's Infomaniac Garden Photos Event, and what a year it's been. Your gardens, vases, and dog-bums have been eye-opening, enviable, and a little bit sick-making! Thank you so much to everyone who took part - whether you opened your garden (outdoors or in), provided snacks, or just visited & commented - I hope you enjoyed it and that you've been inspired to undertake another year of gardening, whatever your skill level.
And an especially big thank you to The Very Mistress, without whom we wouldn't have a Garden Photos Event! A potted history - complete with links to Events past - can be found at last year's 10th Annual Lady Garden Presentation Anniversary premier, with links to all the 2020 gardens included in that year's finale, up my, I mean, in my, I mean at the rear. Oh, you know what I mean!
Anyway, let's get on with with wrapping this thing up, shall we? We have the links to this year's gardens followed by some interesting stats to get through.
Programme of Events
Most Popular Plants
While going through your photos and putting the Garden Photos Event together, I noticed that some plants are rather popular and feature in quite a few of your gardens. So, I thought it would interesting to see which featured plants are the most popular (I'm only counting featured or easily recognisable plants, not those blurry, out-of-focus ones lolling around in the background).
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The "Did we win yet?"s
Do you know, I've had to channel The Very Mistress (not a pleasant experience, let me tell you - the more I had to do it, the more I had to resist the urge to wear stripy tights and look at fat, naked, old men on the internet) and say "the Garden Photos Event is NOT a competition/contest" six times during this year's tour. One particular Blogorati caused me to say it three times! And there were a couple of occasions when I should have, but let them slide (crosses fingers and hopes not to be banished from Infomaniac - Although, I think I should be okay as one of slidees was none other than The Very Mistress herself! The other was Hound).
I suppose you'll be wanting to know who invoked LẌ and provoked me into responding in the time honoured way, hmm? Well, here they are:
P E E N E E (and David-from-Portland), here.
D I N A H M O W (and LẌ), here.
H O U N D (and an unwitting Dinah - OR WAS SHE?!), here.
And the winner is...
M S S C A R L E T, here, here, and here.
To find out how The Very Mistress dealt with such impertinence, may I direct you to two of LẌ's GPE posts from years past, here and here (there's a lot of sighing and threats of reaching into her bag of "Banned" stickers). Me? I'll be in the Gincuzzi...
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Pee-Ess, I hope this all comes out okay. It never looks quite the same once published as in the 'preview', so I may have to do some reformatting after this has auto-published and I'm awake. I've also noticed that the font-sizes are all over the place when viewed on Safari (my phone died recently so I've been borrowing The Mother's old iPhone - which used to be my sister's - and occasionally use it to have a look at the blog when I wake up in the morning to check that it published while I slept) - this blog is best viewed in Firefox or one of those Microsoft things - Edge or IE or something.
You have done us all proud, dear IDV! I always look forward to this event - not a competition! - every year, and this has been a rather good one (despite the hideous weather 2021 brought us in the UK). Roll on 2022! Jx
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jon. Yes, now it's over, I can't wait for the next one!
DeleteJust so you know...before we moved to the Tropics, we lived on a 10 acre block in the boonies.And I had a bit of a thing for Heritage Roses. Of course, one can't stop there! And as David Austin has bred so many new plants that "echo" the old types, I had a few of his, too. Somewhere approaching 100 roses, though several were repeats, in different parts of the garden.
ReplyDeleteand it was not all roses! Bougainvillea scrambled up eucalypts,honeysuckle escaped and threatened to take over the whole damn' place. Quisqualis(aka Rangoon Creeoer) went bonkers and shot up the galvanised poled that held the tv aerial.If there hadn't been a major rugby match on telly we might have ignored it!
Huge thanks to IDV for sorting out all this. And props to the gardeners.
Ah, thank you, Dinah! Do you have any photos of your roses and Bougainvillea and the like from the days of yore, perchance? It's given me an idea for next year's event: A Retro GPE feature (a warm up event to go alongside Terrifying Triffidery)!
DeleteI thought this year was a spectacular garden event! Maybe next year Ill featured the potted gardens. And any Cyclamen I shall attempt to grow. Meanwhile my veiny purple cabbage is all that is left in the garden, much like my own at a keys in the fish bowl party. You done good with this event handsome.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you don't mind do I take that as a hint to slip into the gincuzzi with you, sly dog?
It was a very good show, wasn't it Maddie. Your veiny purple love cabbage was the talk of the town!
DeleteI hope you don't mind, but we have another Gincuzzi guest: I invited Asriel after he got me all hot and bothered by mentioning that he'd loosen his bow tie!
What a lovely revue. It could use a couple of snappy tunes, but it was also rather perfect the way it is. Gracias. You did a splendid job, my dear. And bravo to all you gardeners. My hat off to each and every one of you. Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mr Tonking. I loved your snappy tunes idea so much that it became the basis for my next post!
DeleteBlogger ate my first comment, What a bastard! Not you darling, Blogger. I know you have parents. Thank you for wrapping up the garden party so nicely! It was fun!
ReplyDeleteOh, dear... I hope it wasn't a Pulitzer Prize winning comment? They're always the ones that get eaten.
DeleteYou had me till the Hexenhäusli Device Lumberjack, then I got all distracted.
ReplyDeleteVery well, he can join us in the Gincuzzi, too. That's four of us now: You, me, Maddie and my Lumberjack. And it looks like Sixpence might dive in too...
DeleteEverybody is a winner!
ReplyDeleteAnd that man should be more careful with his axe, mind you! But he needs to stay shirtless. It's the law.
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Not to worry, Sixpence. I've hidden his shirt now - it's his only one!
DeleteI'm so proud of all you Bitches for keeping it up, er, the plant submissions, that is.
ReplyDeleteA round of applause for Mr. DeVice who has taken the Garden Photos Event to new and unprecedented levels of greatness.
Applause hell MJ. I'll show him my appreciation later.....
Delete*grabs popcorn and a front row seat for the Mistress Maddie / Mr. DeVice show*
DeleteThe front row seats at the Gincuzzi are liable to get you rather wet, Very Mistress!
DeleteSomething tells me she might like the splash zone.
Delete...is off to fetch some big plush towels for the show.
DeleteIt's been a stonking success!!! Thank you, Mr Devine, for hosting such a brilliant show, and writing this write-up.
ReplyDeleteApologies for my lateness, I am in a mood, but this post has nearly knocked me out of it - all I need is tea, chocolate and a little rest, and then I might post something myself.
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And thank you, Ms Scarlet! I'm very pleased with how it all went this year, and thrilled at your be-GIFed garden!
DeleteI hope your mood has been vanquished now? I too have been feeling rather 'different' over the past few days (the change in weather certainly hasn't helped), and cracked open a tray of Ferrero Rocher that were meant for Christmas in an attempt to cheer myself up.
I'm looking forward to your tea-and-chocolate fueled post!
And..... I shall look forward to my prize - I must have won something.....
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Yes you did... empty Rocher Ferrero wrappers!
DeleteAnd I have oh so many empty wrappers to get rid of...
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