The Infomaniac Garden Photos Event 2022

 Yes, it is the moment you have all been waiting for...

the

I N F O M A N I A C

Garden Photos Event 2022

... is now open!

 

 Welcome, welcome, one and all!  We're going to dispense with the whys and wherefores this year as they're all addressed in my Infomaniac Garden Photos Event page up there (underneath the blog title), and get straight on with the show.

 Firstly, thank you to all those who sent in their greenfingered photos, and to everyone gathered here now for a good old snout at someone else's idea of gardening.  Hopefully you can take away some ideas, tips and/or inspiration for your own patch.

 

 This year, as well as photos of your gardening efforts throughout the year, I also asked if you could reach back through the mists of time and send in photos of a garden or plant you may have tended back in the olden days.  Half of those who are taking part managed to find one or two old daguerrotypes or poloroids - and in some cases, many.  So very many.  So, you've got that to look forward to, too!

 

 As the Garden Photos Event started out with The Very Mistress, so it is appropriate that this year's show - the 12th! - begins with her efforts (ahem) as well:

This is the female of a pair of mallards who make regular pit stops to

my garden in all seasons. 

If you're wondering why there are so many dandelions, it's because

I don't consider them to be weeds. The rabbits will nibble the dandelions

before they'll nibble my flowers so all power to the dandelions.

The other wonderful thing about dandelions is that they are loved by bees.

 

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 Right.  Now on to the aftermath of Terrifying Triffidery.  If you haven't yet had a look in the orangery of 'orror (see previous post), then I suggest you do so before continuing if you want to guess who sent in what.

 Escaped the orangery intact?  Drat!  Good.  Here are the triffids and their wranglers in order of appearance:

 

Dear Savvy provided the background trees for the Terrifying Triffidery poster, and also the final 'Day of the Dead' photo which appears to be some sort of papyrus grass (Cyperus papyrus).

 

Melanie brought forth the swamp thing (no idea what it is - perhaps it really is a monster?), and not-a-feather duster & vampiric beauty (both of which are Magnolia flowers unless I'm very much mistaken?).

 

'Death by a thousand pricks' could only be from Maddie (Well done, Jon and Asriel!), and is a close up of a coneflower (Rudbeckia or Echinacea, I suspect).

The horrible, skittering, giant sea lice - a cycad (Macrozamia) - and the Martian Triffid - Hibiscus 'Ritzy' - came from Dinah's depths down under (not a euphemism).

 

The frightening 'Flashback' was from Ms Scarlet.

As well as the prickly sweet chestnut cases, there's also some sort of fir cone and a small leaf that I can't identify (some sort of ground ivy, perhaps?  Or, maybe even a cyclamen?)

Mitzi's "16.5 stone bullmastiff" featured in 'rEdRuM'

Look!  You can see Carmen's visage in the glass framed by the Lophospermum tendril, top right!

The tapeworm was a little something I wound out.

Not from me, I hasten to add, from a Cobaea scandens fruit.

Jon's hideous deep sea monster was a rather beautiful lily (Lilium speciosum).

'And another one' - a day lily (Hemerocallis somethingorother) - from Mr Tonking.

I just hope that Jon and Mr Tonking didn't have the same

problem with scarlet lily beetles as Sir Patrick Stewart?

 

And I'm not sure if David Beckham is about to laugh at Sir Pat's misfortune,

or cry because all of your triffids are so terrifying?

 

 It goes without saying - even though I'm going to say it anyway - that the Garden Photos Event (and its associated features, such as Terrifying Triffidery) is NOT a competition, but, if it were, the winner would be Jon with the most correct guesses.

 By the way, the full, untouched, uncropped photos that these triffids emerged from will feature in their sender's main Garden Photos Event post.

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 Now, if anyone couldn't make the deadline for getting their photos in, but would still like to take part, get your skates on!  I'll accept photos for the next week or so. 

 

 Pop back in a couple of days or so for an in depth look at what Dinah's gardens - new and old - have to offer!