The Infomaniac Garden Photos Event 2023 Primer

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Garden Photos Event 2023

 

 

 Hello, and welcome to this, the primer for this year's Infomaniac Garden Photos Event! 

 As all the regulars and old hats will already know, the GPE was brought into being by the Infomaniac herself, The Very Mistress, for all of us Blogorati to show off our green (and sometimes brown) fingered/thumbed skills, whether it's one or two photos showcasing a prized specimen, or a whole slew of snaps covering EVERYTHING that you've nurtured and prodded into growth throughout the year.  

My latest purchase: Chocolate vine (Akebia quinata)

 And this year is no different.  As with recent GPEs, this year's will be held in November, so you have months and months and months to capture images of your luxurient growth (if you haven't already started), whether it be in your garden, courtyard, balcony, windowbox, terrarium, or dining table vase.  If there's not much of note going on in your garden right now, and you are prone to forgetfulness - I'm not going to pick out Savvy this year as she defied expectations and got in reasonably early last year - I shall be issuing reminders throughout the yea-

Nagging and haranguing, more like.

Quiet you!

 Yes, quiet you.  Bloody SubCs...  Anyway, where was I?  Oh, yes: The reminders will just be gentle prompts to enable you to get your arses in gear and get snapping so that you have something to email to me before the end of October so that I can-

 Well, me, really.  Witchface leaves all the technical stuff to me, mostly.

 Yes, well, the HTML demons are needlessly vexing.  I don't know how you have the patience to deal with them?

 Plenty of practice dealing with you!

 Hey!  Rude.  I've forgotten what I was going to say now.

 Just move on to this year's sub-theme - I don't think anyone was paying attention to what you were blathering on about anyway.

 Hmmmph!  Fine.  Yes.  Sub-theme.  Right.  Inspired by some of last year's GPE photos (and some common-or-garden non-GPE posts), this year's sub-theme is: 

 

Flora and Fauna

 

 If you can, please include one or two (or more, if you're so inclined) photos of wildlife visiting your garden or other overgrown area.  Birds, bees, butterflies, bears.  Yes, bears.  Melanie's garden attracts bears, because of course it does.  

I imagine Mistress Maddie attracts bears, otters and probably pythons to her lady garden, too...

No doubt.

Anyway, here are some examples:

The Very Mistress's mallard:

 

Melanie's hummingbird (and swallowtail butterfly - lucky cow!):

 

My newt:

Dinahmow's newt:

Oh, hang on... 

 

This kind of thing won't be tolerated, however:

A petrified bunny amongst dog violets

 

 

He might be wild, but he's not wildlife: Bertie Bitey about to ruin something in the garden as per.

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 To get you in the mood, here's a post-Bitey shot from my garden, and a couple from the allotment - all taken on Sunday.

My shade garden behind the garage

Greengage blossom on the allotment

A lovely clump of hyacinths (which need splitting up a bit) also up the allotment

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 Oh, almost forgot: Terrifying Triffidery is still a thing, so please also remember to take some photos of your monstrous growths to be featured in a Hallowe'en post. 

 

 The Infomaniac Garden Photos Event is open to everyone, so you don't have to be a regular here to take part.  Irregulars, lurkers, newbies, visitors from other blogs, and any Infomaniac Old Guard Bitches - all are welcome!  I'll provide further instructions and deadlines nearer the time, but for now, just get snapping!