"Summer Hath Aroused" thoughts of the Infomaniac Garden Photos Event

 Oof!  Nearly fell back into the all consuming "All".  Fortunately, the most recent questing tentacle from All turned out to be little more than a tendril, and is now* eating a cheese & coleslaw sandwich (made by me!) while safely ensconced in the recliner downstairs nursing a gashed shin. 

 So, as Summer has finally** reached the north-eastiest bit of East Anglia (which means it's too hot to be outside doing anything) I find myself with some unexpected free time - enough to whip up a reminder for:

the House of

I N F O M A N I A C

Garden Photos Event 2023

 

* About 11:30ish at the time of writing.

** Summer landed in most of Blighty last week.  Apparently, temperatures in the mid-to-high 20s abounded, but not here.  The cold North Wind (from the North Sea, funnily enough) kept the clouds in place and the temperatures at least 10 degrees cooler than practically everywhere else.

Until today.  It might get as warm as 20°C!

 Ooh, before I forget, in book news, I have finished The Thursday Murder Club, and have started the second book in the series by Richard Osman: The Man Who Died Twice.  While reading a few more pages last night, I found myself thinking that Elizabeth and Joyce are very much like Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg respectively, from Sir Pterry Pratchett's Discworld.  This is obviously a good thing.

 Now, back to the GPE reminder and some photographs of subjects you have (mostly) seen before a thousand times:

 

Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascenais) flower bud

 As you should all be aware by now, the annual Infomaniac Garden Photos Event is held here, rather than at The Very Mistress's hallowed cesspit knitting blog, The Infomaniac.  (For the forgetful, easily confused, and any newcomers, further information can be found by clicking on the Garden Photos Event page at the top of this blog).

 

 This year, just as in years past, the Event will be held in November, so please set to with your cameras and photograph the luxurient growth of your garden, courtyard, terrace, conservatory, windowbox, house plant (delete as applicable) so you have something to send in nearer the time.

 If you don't have a garden or pot plant but would like to take part, just take a photo/s of a favourite plant (or twelve) from a local park or wild area that you frequent (and I do mean frequent - somewhere you visit reasonably regularly to enjoy the greenery) and send them in, but please make sure you let me know where the photos were taken.

 

 I will publish further haranguing nagging reminders throughout the Summer and Autumn, as well as instructions and deadlines etc. (which are usually along the lines of: email me your photos and captions by the end of October - email address, if you don't already have it, is in my blog profile on right).

 

 As you may recall from April's GPE primer, this year's sub-theme is:

Honeybee swarm inspecting my compost heap

Flora and Fauna

 So, if you can take a photo or two of non-human, non-domesticated animal visitors - birds, butterflies, bees, bugs, and/or bears - to your unkempt undergrowth or manicured green patch, please do.  They can be sent in along with your main chlorophyll-based lifeform photos.

 

 Speaking of bees, I watched Jupiter Ascending (again) last night purely because of the swarm I discovered buzzing around and in✢ my allotment compost heap.  Sadly, I couldn't influence the swarm, unlike the titular Jupiter does when she visits Sean Bean's bee and honeycomb festooned house along with Channing Tatum in the film, so I am obviously not royalty.  Harrumph!

 Oh, and I would like to hold a Terrifying Triffidery exhibit at Hallowe'en again, so please also take some photos of your more monstrous growths (or spookily lit and/or drunken close-ups of less terrifying plants) as well.

 Right.  On to some allotment photos from a couple of days ago:

Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) with yet-to-ripen loganberries

California poppy

Foxglove sentinels standing watch over newly planted loganberry and raspberry canes

Allotment HQ covered in honeysuckle, loganberry, and elderflower

Blue-caned "Black Jewel" raspberry behind more foxgloves

View from the fruit cage

More foxgloves in the neglected allotment next to mine

(I'm going to nab some seeds in late-Summer)

 

 And this morning's Bitey Walk (with a special something for Ms Scarlet at the end):

Summer has arrived!

Someone has thoughtfully mowed a landing strip for me 'pon Broom at the top of Madams Lane.  Although, just what kind of crash-landing were they envisioning I'd make to mow one this long?  The cheek!

Double pink hawthorn for Ms Scarlet

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Post title partially from Ghosts: "The Thomas Thorne Affair"