GPE 2026 : Terrifying Triffidery

 Welcome one and all to the 7th annual

Terrifying Triffidery

sideshow of the

I N F O M A N I A C

Garden Photos Event

 Barely contained behind their rickety enclosures are 13 of the most vile and venomous triffids known to science.  Unfortunately, a "blustery blust" blew all their labels away, so it is up to you to try and identify them and also guess which blogger sent in what triffid.  Please leave your guesses in the comments.

 

 A word of warning: my woodsman has had to get his chopper out to deal with some of these specimens, so try not to startle him!

 

WARNING! CONDITION GREEN! This is Your Garden Photos Event Final Reminder

 Prepare yourselves!  The Triffids will be released on Hallowe'en to clear the way for the 16th annual

 

I N F O M A N I A C

 

GardEN  PHotoS  EVEnt

 

which begins on the 1st November.

 We have received photos from six of you already (thank you, you heedful half-dozen!), but there's still time for the rest of you to get your garden photos in. 

 

  As always, the Infomaniac Garden Photos Event is open to all - you don't need to be an Infomaniac Bitch or a regular reader/commenter here at Inexplicable Device, you don't even need a blog!  All you need are captioned photos of some sort of flora that you've taken care of this past year (or at least not tried to actively kill...), whether it's an expansive garden, a pot-filled balcony, or an indoor plant or two.

 And for those of you with plant corpses on your hands, perhaps you'd like to photograph them (the plant corpses, not your hands...) and submit them to the Terrifying Triffidery sideshow which will be held on 31st October, just before the main event kicks off.  Also acceptable - nay, encouraged - are bizarre plants, unnerving close-ups, filtered frights, and those blurry, odd-angled monstrosities that are the result of being drunk in charge of a camera.

 

 Your Triffids MUST reach me by midday on Friday 30th October in order to make it into the Terrifying Triffidery sideshow.  Any late comers will be doused in seawater and dissolved so as not to be on the prowl during the main event (see, there is a reason why I live on the coast...).

 You have another week or so to submit your non-triffids & photo captions for the main event.  Ideally, I'd like your photos in my in-box by Sunday 8th November, but the sooner the better, please.

  This blog's email address can be found by clicking on my profile at the top of the Sideboard on the right.  For those of you with The Host's personal email address, please use that instead.

  

  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!  You don't have to provide dozens of photos - one or two will be fine - and there'll be no judging or negative critique.  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!

 
 And with that, I shall say cheerio until Hallowe'en - see all of you and your Triffids then!

I'm really sorry there are people in it

 This post is just an excuse to dump some recent photos that I didn't think deserved to languish in my hard drive (and that didn't make into the previous Four Photos post).  It also contains a couple of new tunes I rather like.  And a cormorant!  Can you spot it?

All these sunrise photos are from 25th September

 

 Here's the music selection (I wanted to get it in before the jump break): The lovely Howard (looking like someone's dad, but I still would) and Take That with the bright and pop-y "Higher"; and the sophisticated and arty Haute & Freddy with "Film Noir":

 

Four Photos: Sea Sky

Well, whatever is going on here, then?

 

Don't worry, we'll reveal all at the end of this post.

 

 

Sunrise, 25th September

 

 

Cormorant!  And Bitey, 1st October

 

 

"Oh, I do like to stroll along the prom, prom prom..."

 

 

It may surprise you to learn that we did not get wet during the taking of this photo.

Fortunately.

As you can tell - if you cock your head to the right - the title image has been cropped from the top right of this photo.

Which is why it doesn't count as two separate photos allowing this post to only contain the requisite four photos.

We've said "photo" too many times now.

Prepare yourselves: The GPE is only a month away!

Yes, the

2026

I N F O M A N I A C

Garden Photos Event

 

                 commences on 1st November (after Terrifying Triffidery at Hallowe'en), so you only have one month to curate the photos you've been snapping during your gardening season/s (which you've all been doing, of course), select the ones you'd like to feature here (be they one or two of a prized pot plant, or an array of all and sundry), and email them in to me so I (well, The Host) can prepare your posts for publishing throughout November.  Details at the end of this post.

 

 To get your sap flowing, here are some photos of some plants blooming in the Hexenhäusli Device gardens right now (I took these photos this evening):

 

Salvia 'Amistad'

 

Salvia 'Cherry Lips'