Sunday, 1 November 2026

The INFOMANIAC Garden Photos Event 2026


 Welcome to the 16th annual I N F O M A N I A C  GARDEN PHOTOS EVENT, and the 7th to be hosted here at Inexplicable Device! 
 
 Many thanks to all of you who have sent in photos of your gardens and green spaces - from brand new gardens to existing, mature ones to indoor arrays of pot plants, the GPE has them all.  And to those of you who haven't quite managed to send your photos in yet, you still have time - we would love to see what you've grown this year.
 
 Instigator and hostess of the GPE many a few years ago, The Very Mistress, has this to say:
"I didn't grow my usual sunflowers. [-] I let the wee garden go wild. Instead, I had a massive number of yellow flowers on long stems that keep returning, and they last a long time. I've forgotten their name but they're from the aster family as are sunflowers. I also had many milkweed plants which are good for the Monarch butterfly population. 
And, like Miss Scarlet, I have an unruly bush. :)"
Speaking of Ms Scarlet, as The Very Mistress is sans sunflowers I nabbed one from Scarlet's collection to illustrate this post (I don't have any either).
 
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Right.  Before we get to the aftermath of the Terrifying Triffidery sideshow, here's a little taster of the super blooms coming up throughout November in the GPE: 
 

 
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 So, let's get on with matching up the triffids to their handlers (and any remaining body parts with their hapless owners) in the results of
 
Terrifying Triffidery
 
 For anyone who may be late to the game and has not yet had a guess, scroll down no further and visit yesterday's Hallowe'en post to see the triffids and see if you can work out who sent what.
 For everyone else, here are the triffids: