Not The Infomaniac Garden Photos Event

 Yes, that's right, this is NOT the Infomaniac Garden Photos Event.  Because, as you all know, the GPE doesn't begin until the end of this month - Hallowe'en, in fact.

 It is, however, a reminder to most of you - and a wake-up call to one or two - that I'll need your garden photos by Wednesday 29th October if you'd like to take part.  Your Terrifying Triffidery photo/s MUST be submitted by the 29th so that I have time to put them together for the Hallowe'en post.  I may allow a little leeway for the main event photos because I'm a soft touch - BUT NOT TOO MUCH!

 More on that at the end of this post, but for now, here are some photos from Thursday's visit to the Old Vicarage Gardens at East Ruston: 

(In the vicinity of the) Winter Garden #1

 

(In the vicinity of the) Winter Garden #2

 

East Park fruiting trees - including the biggest hawthorn berries I've ever seen! (top right)

 

Diamond Jubilee Walled Garden #1

 

Diamond Jubilee Walled Garden #2 (with some Salvias for Jon)

 

Inside the Diamond Jubilee Garden's glasshouse - I thought of Mistress Maddie and her autumnal mood boards when I saw the box of squashes.

 

Diamond Jubilee Walled Garden #3

 

This massive, pink Salvia (at least, I think it is) is just outside the Diamond Jubilee Garden (at the pointiest end near the fruit cage).

 

This little path to a small dog kennel/guinea fowl coop(?) is somewhere south-west of the fruit cage.

 

I spotted this dragonfly not far from the kennel/coop.

 

Between the Fruit Cage and Diamond Jubilee Garden is this lush, dahlia-festooned walkway.

 

Heading north-west with the Diamond Jubilee Walled Garden on the right.

 

I'm not overly fussed by dahlias usually, but these are stunning!

And looking back down the dahlia walkway

(I made sure to nab some seeds from the giant pineapple lilies {Eucomis comosa} before I left.)

 

It was rather a warm day so there were quite a few late butterflies out: Red Admiral on the dahlias, a Peacock on verbena, and a Wall Brown warming itself on a stone.

 

A selection of blooms: a heavenly scented rose; hibiscus; passion flower; a very late iris; marigolds (hello Mr Tonking!), and something I can't remember the name of (does it begin with a C?)

 

Amaranthus in the Vegetable & Cutting Garden

 

The south border of the Desert Wash with bright orange California poppies (hello Savvy!)

 

The photos stop here at the Desert Wash because Camera's battery ran out!

 

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 Now, on to the

I N F O M A N I A C

Garden Photos Event

technical stuff:           

 

 Infomaniac Bitches should already know the score, but for the muddled, forgetful, and easily startled or 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!  You too, peenee.

 

 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 or a resilient plant that you haven't managed to kill yet (I'm looking at you, Mago!). 

 

 The Terrifying Triffidery 'guess who/what' exhibit is returning again this year.  So, if you'd like to take part in that too, please send in a photo(s) of a particularly horrific horticultural specimen - either the whole thing (taken at night, while drunk, with a filter, artfully/partially obscured etc.), or a close-up - and I'll display them in a Hallowe'en post then you can all guess who sent in which triffid and what they mutated from.

 

 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.  (We don't pay him, so don't take advantage!)

 

 Please email your photos and captions (as terse or verbiose as you like/can be bothered) to this blog's gmail address which can be found in my profile at the top of the Sideboard on the right there.  Alternatively, if you have The Host's hotmail address use that instead. 

 As mentioned at the top of this post, I'd like your main garden photos by Wednesday 29th October (give or take).  But if you're taking part in the Terrifying Triffidery pre-event exhibition, your triffid photo/s MUST be emailed to me by midnight on the aforementioned Wednesday - no dilly-dallying!

 

 If you have any questions and/or suggestions, please sound off in the comments.  Happy gardening!