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 I think it's about time for a Garden Photos Event reminder, don't you, Very Mistress?

 

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Garden Photos Event 2025

 

 As with previous years, this year's GPE will be held throughout November, with the event kicking off on Hallowe'en with the now traditional Terrifying Triffidery exhibit.  This leaves you little more than three months to take photos of your green spaces (if you haven't already made a start) and curate them before emailing them to me by the end of October.

 

 Infomaniac Bitches should already know the score, but for the muddled, forgetful, and easily startled/distracted - not to mention anyone new who'd like to take part - there's a potted history of the Infomaniac GPE on its own dedicated page at the top of this blog so you can see what you'll be letting yourself in for/getting involved in.  And despite some comments to the contrary, the GPE is NOT a contest, so your gardening efforts (or lack thereof) will not be judged and there will be no winner.  This means you, Savvy!

 There's no particular theme this year - we'll accept photos of pretty much anything garden-related, whether selected prize specimens that would make Monty Don weep or breathtaking vistas of your expansive grounds, to the potted dwellers on your balcony/windowsill, to a resilient plant that you haven't managed to kill yet. 

 And if you have a straggly and unruly bush that you suspect may be a weed but fascinated you enough to wonder what it is, the Official Plant Spotter of Hexenhäusli Device and its Extensive Witchdom, nay, All of Blogdom Itself, Jon, should be on hand to identify your unmentionables. 

 

 Right.  That's that bit done.  Here are a few bits & bobs from my garden this month to goad you into action:

 

View over the Circular Paysho from behind a hebe.

 

Rainbow plant (Houttuynia cordata) flowering in the pond lake.

 

Californian blue-eyed grass (as identified by Jon during last year's GPE)

 

The rather overgrown lake

 

This half of the Astilbe that the Host moved from The Gardener's Retreat (my shady garden behind the garage) last year is doing MUCH better in the border near the Lake and Circular Paysho.

 

Here it is again from the other direction complete with double day lilies (which I'd moved from the allotment) and Bitey.

 

Arial view of the South Gardens

 

Morning Glory (Ipomoea purpurea) making a determined bid to escape over the garage roof, Aeonium 'Zwartkop', Fuchsia 'Eva Boerg' (I think?), Gladiolus 'At Night'