I N E X P L I C A B L E
D E V I C E
Yes, it's finally my turn!
I'm sure you mean our turn, hmm? After all, whose hands and body - not to mention knowledge and bank account - is used to maintain our garden? If it was left to you, the Hexenhäusli Device gardens would be a prickly, poisonous wilderness of brambles, apple trees, hemlock, and foxgloves!
It would save having to go out on the increasingly unsafe Broom to gather ingredients. Besides, you like those plants.
Yes, but not just those plants as a garden!
Oh, fine. You can get on with the captioning and the like as you're the "expert"!
I will, then!
Oh, good. This is turning out well, as usual.
Wake me up when it's all over.
Right. Now that Witchface and the dratted SubCs have shut up, I'll continue.
You may have noticed that we've been decidedly absent from the blog this year, which means that there were rather fewer garden updates than usual. A consequence of that is a glut of garden and allotment photos that are all being dumped here because they haven't yet seen the light of day. I've tried to include mainly plants that haven't featured in the previous couple of years, and I've smushed some together to make sure this post didn't wear out your scrolling fingers.
It may be rather dull and overlooked usually, but when in flower (such as here in early May), I think laurel is quite lovely.
From May and August (and it's still flowering now! - albeit rather feebly), water hawthorn (Aponogeton distachyos) in my allotment bathtub. I find its alien/sea slug-like flowers quite fascinating!
June is foxglove season! Other than loganberries, foxgloves are the main "crop" up at the allotment at this time of year.
Gladioli up the allotment (left and right) and in the garden (centre) in June, July, and August.
Looking much better this year (I remembered to water them), Gladiola "At Night" in July and August. A couple of the blooms starred in the Terrifying Triffidery poster back at Hallowe'en.
The first flowering (in July) of the waterlily I bought The Mother for her birthday last year.
After two or three dismal years, 2025 was the Year of the Greengage! The tree was absolutely laden with them throughout July and August - there are still some in the freezer now, I think. (The big European plum tree did well, too.)
Agapanthus "Royal Velvet" took up the slack in August when my other pale blue ones only put up two flower heads between the four of them!
Clashing colours in the August East Border from lavender, snapdragons, montbretia, roses, and toadflax.
A couple of years ago, there was only one bulb in this pot. My Eucomis comosa "Sparkling Beauty" is a prolific offset producer! (I'll need to split up these thugs in the spring.)
To prevent Bitey trampling & digging everything up, I used upturned cheapo hanging baskets wedged in place with canes. They also served to support and contain some of the taller leaves and stems.
(From left to right, photos from March, May, June (x2), July and August)
The South Garden (from atop a rather wobbly Broom) in April, June, July and August
And finally, a selection of blooms from throughout the year. From left to right, top to bottom: Dog's tooth violet/fawn lily (Erythronium californicum) - April; snakes head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris) - April; iris (first seen here) - June; peony with Device cronefingers & thumb - June; Morning Glory (Ipomoea purpurea) and hoverfly - July; double day lily (Hemerocallis somethingorother) - also July; Gladiola "At Night" - July; Fuchsia "Blacky" - July; passion flower "Violacea" - August; and a crinum of some description - also August.
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So there you have it, the final garden of this year's Infomaniac Garden Photos Event, but not the end of the show. Pop back in a couple of days time for a look back at this year's gardens (and the half-naked, nubile young Hexenhäusli Device Woodsman) along with some highlights, trivia, and observations.
Oh, and I hope you've been keeping your eyes peeled for thumbs and bums throughout the Event?
See you on Wednesday!
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