I do apologise for leaving my garden photo submission to the last minute. You see, the plant life in the gardens of my new abode - Chateau DeVice - is very willful and somewhat homicidal (homocidal? witchicidal?), so I had to be very careful and take photos while they were "resting" (i.e. sated on passers by).
I hope you enjoy this Triptych of Triffids - seen here looming over the Chateau.
No need to spare a thought as to my well-being - I managed to escape with only minor gouging and an insignificant rash. Oh, and the medical witch says I should have the sight back in my right eye within a day or two. If it can be recovered quickly enough from the undergrowth.
P. S. I don't know why the first Triffid is wearing a scarf - it's not that cold here yet?...
Here are the two foxgloves I bought recently from Urban Jungle – Digitalis illumination “Raspberry”...
Ignore the ghastly gnome – it’s The Mother’s – it keeps edging its way to the front when I try and hide it behind the bigger plants. Bloody limelight hogger...
Oh, and for Jon, a pic of one of the Giant Viper's Bugloss I grew from seed sown in early July. His should be sprouting by now, too. It should flower in 2019 as long as I can get it through this winter...
Thank you, Mr. DeVice!
Bravo for your spectacular entry, Mr Devine!! It has left me all a quiver. And there is always a place in my heart for a roving gnome.
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Thank you, Ms Scarlet. Let me tell you, the quiver is all mine.
DeleteAs for the gnome, I'll see if I can persuade him to rove away down Devon way...
You certainly have inherited some fearsome brutes in the new Chateau...
ReplyDeleteAs for the Echiums you sent, I have one (somewhat leggy, as I sowed them and them promptly forgot to check them) sprout, so fingers crossed!
Jx
I should have known better, but I brought the cold triffid with me!
DeleteI shall keep my fingers crossed for your Echium(s - as several of the seeds I sowed sprouted a month after the first ones came through).
What a lovely garden, but i can't help but notice everything is either alien or phallic looking?!?!? I most certainly could enjoy a few Mojoitos in this garden. Now excuse me why I go change for the next entry......
ReplyDeleteAlien-looking? Phallic?? I'm sure you must be reading into things... *ahem*
DeleteAs for mojitos, there is a small terrace (or paysho, as we like to call it) that would be ideal for such endeavours. Although, I hope you can manage drinking before midday as the sun goes around in the afternoon?
Oh, what a stupid question to ask - Look who I'm talking to!
What a lovely garden, but i can't help but notice everything is either alien or phallic looking?!?!? I most certainly could enjoy a few Mojoitos in this garden. Now excuse me why I go change for the next entry......
ReplyDeleteSo phallic you did a double take, eh?
DeleteYou have some marvelous spiky horrors there no wonder the gnome is trying to sneak off
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping the agaves run him through for Hallowe'en!
DeleteStruth! You should have a ruddy great warning sign next to those brutes.
ReplyDeleteStrangely enough, what most appeals to me is the really dangerous one - that beautiful foxglove.Gorgeous colour!(Any shags?)
Ah, the poisonous beauty of a raspberry foxglove! You have exquisite taste. As do I which is why I bought two!
DeleteI will not allow shags in the garden. For one, it is too small and one is likely to be impaled on something (those agaves, for one). And two, Beaky still hangs around and doesn't seem to like them very much.
The Triptych of Triffids is scarily magnificent! Well done sir!
ReplyDeleteWhy, thank you, LẌ.
DeletePerhaps You caught the triffid with the scarf in the throws of some sort of autoerotic asphixiatve extacy...
ReplyDeletejust knock on the door next time...
Lovely pic just the same.
Will you need to make adjustments to your collection to allow for the extra saltiness living by the sea side?
Oh, gods, you mean I interrupted triffid sex?! Yuk. That's a worse horror than getting lashed and blinded by one! Come to think of it, is the lashing and blinding part of their sordid sex ritual, too?
DeleteLuckily, almost everything in my previous gardens at Castlette DeVice was pretty hardy to salty spray, even though they were sheltered from it. They few specimens that I brought with me to Chateau DeVice seem to be doing OK so far...
How exotic and exciting! Sharp, poisonous, and very spectacular! Not at all what I expected. Fantastic surprise!
ReplyDeleteWhat's that gnome drinking out of his cup? Based on his color and assumed British origin, I take it to be Earl Grey or Pimm's No. 1 Cup, which I imagine the Queen chugs down at tea time.
I thought I'd go for sharp and poisonous to keep the kids away, but they seem to have developed an immunity, the little brats!
DeleteAs for the cup, I went in for a closer look and discovered it to be triffid juice! The little bastard had only been milking my triffid! For what nefarious purpose I don't know? Although, maybe that's how he turned to stone...?
WOW! I am impressed, but then, when you see my garden, you'll know why! But, seriously, your photos seem very Southern California to me, sweetpea! xoxox
ReplyDeleteThank you, Savvy. I do so love the spare, arid gardens of warmer climes, and can just about manage some of the plantlife here (agaves, for one). However, most just turn into mush with all the cold and rain we have.
DeleteI love triffids!
ReplyDeleteDO you have that on a bumper (fender?) sticker, Norma?
DeleteThe foxglove is a lovely color, but the triffids send a shiver down my spine. They are so Invasive here, I expect to find one in the toilet.
ReplyDeleteThey're terrible, aren't they? They never lock the door when they're in there, so you get an embarrassed fright when you walk in!
DeleteTowering triffids & drinking gnomes, tooth-armed greenery ready to bite and finally something absolutely unspectacular in a little brown cup - congratulations IDV for bringing together the extremes in one well-balanced garden !
ReplyDeleteWhy, thank you, Mago!
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