Garden Photos Event Countdown

 

D A N G E R !

the House of

I N F O M A N I A C

Garden Photos Event

 

WILL DETONATE GO OFF IN T-MINUS 10 MINUTES 30 DAYS!

 

 

 Or something less dramatic.

 

 So, anyway, yes, it'll soon be Garden Photos Event time so I hope you've all been taking photos of how your expansive grounds | bijou courtyard | overgrown wilderness | rampant houseplants | tasteful city garden | impenetrable jungle | potted paradise [delete as applicable] has grown over the year, as I'll want your carefully curated selections - along with verbose or terse captions - in my in-box by Saturday 28th October, please.  

 If you've managed to capture on film any visting non-domestic fauna (however big or small) to your garden please include those photos as well, as the (entirely voluntary) theme this year is Wildlife.  More information about this can be found in the previous GPE reminder, here.

 And remember also to include a photo or two of a particularly spooky plant in your collection - or, failing that, a rather more mundane plant which has been snapped at an odd angle/close-up/while drunk - for the GPE preview Terrifying Triffidery on the 31st.

 This blog's gmail address for sending your photos & captions into is in my profile on top of the Sideboard over there.  Or, if you have the Host's personal hotmail address, you can use that instead.

 

 Right.  Let's have a look at some photos from Allotment Device to get you in the mood, shall we?  

 

Some of the various allotment visitors/permanent residents

(and, yes, the common black diving beetle is in a bath)

 

These gorgeous foxgloves are from the semi-abandoned allotment next to mine  [June]

(mine is just beyond the pallets and shed where the grass ends)

Allotment HQ festooned with elderflower, honeysuckle, and loganberries  [June]

Nigella, aka Love-in-a-Mist  [July]

My lone sunflower - all the rest got eaten/marmalised as seedlings  [July]

Crocosmia "Lucifer"  [August]

Echinops (globe thistle)  [August]

My unusable compost heap.  Because it has a honeybee nest in it!  [August]

Ripening, thornless blackberries  [August]

I think my greengage tree is taking a breather after last year's efforts - this is one of the very few, non-wizened, not-yet-wasp-got fruits  [August]

This rather lacklustre (and somewhat obvious) Triffid is actually from Hexenhäusli Device Gardens rather than the allotment  [August]

 

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 For anyone new to this/with only a few houseplants/concerned about your gardening abilities (etc.) who may be wondering if you can take part: Yes, you can!  As you can see by looking back through previous Garden Photos Events (see my handy GPE Page) pretty much anything goes - and the more the merrier! 

 After all, in the exasperated tone of the GPE originator herself, The Very Mistress: 

 

May I remind you that The Garden Photos Event is NOT a competition!

 If you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas about the GPE, please sound off in the comments.