Of Garden Photos Events and Freakin' Green Elf Shorts

Hasn't it all been just too, too much?

Garden photos and green shorts combo.

The Garden Photos Event AND The Freakin' Green Elf Shorts Competition were held simultaneously this year!

Thank you to Mr. DeVice who has taken over the annual Garden Photos Event with such fun and flair.

And thank you to Mistress Maddie for hosting the most recent Freakin' Green Elf Shorts Competition.

The Gincuzzi is open exclusively and privately for Mr. DeVice and Mistress Maddie. The rest of you Bitches may join them when they've had time to rest, relax and recuperate.

The Big Reveal - Garden Photos Event

The Big Reveal has begun! ...

Head on over to visit Mr. DeVice. The Infomanic Garden Photos Event 2022 (now hosted by Mr. DeVice) is underway!

The Garden Photos Event is in Full Swing

The Infomanic Garden Photos Event 2021 is in full swing. The event is now brilliantly hosted by Mr. DeVice so get yourselves over there to see what's being revealed...

Click here to view the posts as they're published.

Garden Photos Reminder

DON'T FORGET!

To view Mr. DeVice's post, click here.

Another Year, Another Garden Event

We've come to the END of another Annual Garden Photos Event...

We wish to thank Mr. DeVice for hosting the 10th Annual Garden Photos Event. His creativity and passion for horticulture made the event a success. Click here to see Mr. DeVice's garden, and follow the links in that post for any submissions you missed from other Infomaniac Bitches.

You did a splendid job, Mr. DeVice!

The Mistress will no longer be hosting this event so please step forward if you would like to take over for the 11th Annual Garden Photos Event, next year.

Back to the Garden

We were temporarily blown off course by the American election. Let us now return to The Annual Garden Photos Event chez Mr. Device.

You'll find all your favourites, including Jon's back passage, Mistress Maddie's rosebud, Dinah's down-under-jungle, Mitzi's Vaseline (wot?), and more to come. Head over there, now.

The 10th Annual Garden Photos Event

The TENTH Annual Garden Photos Event has begun! Formerly hosted here on Infomaniac, the capable and green-thumbed Mr. DeVice is now "the host with the most" of this popular event. 

Click here for the first submission which just happens to be The Mistress's gigantic sunflower. 

Although these sunflowers bear a striking resemblance to The Mistress's sunflowers, they are not, in fact, The Mistress's sunflowers. Nor is that The Mistress.

There will be more entries in the Garden Photo Event so be sure to visit Mr. DeVice as updates happen. 

Many thanks to Mr. DeVice for graciously taking over the hosting of this annual event. He's done a splendid job.

The Garden Photos Event Big Reveal

Mr. DeVice is ready to begin the BIG REVEAL...

Yes, the first installment in the annual Garden Photos Event has begun chez Mr. DeVice. Click here to witness Terrifying Triffidery!

And note that there will be more to follow when the main event begins soon.

Upcoming Garden Photos Event

 Bitches, start trimming your bushes! 

Mr. DeVice is hosting the 10th Anniversary Garden Photos Event staring on October 31st. Deadline for your garden photos is October 28th. Click here for more information.

Thanks ever so much to Mr. DeVice for hosting this year's event.

Announcing Our New Garden Photo Events Manager

We here at Infomaniac are pleased to announce that Mr. DeVice will be hosting the 2020 Garden Photos Event on his blog.  Date to be announced but it won't be until later this year.

Mr. DeVice in his garden.

Basically, it will be the same Garden Photos Event you know and love but with the possibility of a few new twists. 

Click here to read about some of Mr. DeVice's ideas. 

Thank you, Mr. DeVice!

Garden Photos Event Manager Needed

The Mistress is looking for someone to take over the heavy lifting.

Who wants to host the 2020 Annual Garden Photos Event on your blog? 

The Mistress first hosted the event back in 2011. 

The 9th Annual Garden Photos Event was held in 2019. 

We're coming up this year on the TENTH Annual Garden Photos Event and The Mistress is ready to hand the reins over to one of you capable Bitches for the forseeable future. 

Norma's Garden Photos

Our final entry in the NINTH ANNUAL INFOMANIAC GARDEN PHOTOS EVENT comes to us from Miss Normadesmond of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Take it away, Norma...

Norma’s got many things that are green, but her thumb ain’t one of them.

My neighborhood has a community garden. 

The gals love to take cuttings from one another...

 Luba seems to have found a bulb that needs planting...

Our grapes have tender vines...

There’s no lack of fertilization...

Morey lives across the street. He’s always looking for a hedge to clip...

Our American Gothic!...

Of course, he lives in another neighborhood...

I’d just mowed. Thankfully, my clippings are bagged...

AyeM8y's Garden Photos

Our next entry in the NINTH ANNUAL INFOMANIAC GARDEN PHOTOS EVENT is AyeM8y in Florida.
As usual, please click to enlarge.

Not sure what these red flowers are, they volunteered.

Red Chili Pepper

The Very Dr. Seuss-looking Castor Bean plant

A variegated Black Elephant Ear

My medieval-looking chandelier with Mason jar shades and a fleur-de-lis, hanging in my Scuppernong arbor.

Just some weed.

My Bleeding Heart.

Not sure what these are but the hummingbirds and butterflies love it. Pictured in the background is a tiny jar hummingbird feeder. I suddenly have many, many hummingbirds.

Note from the Mistress: I couldn't resist adding this photo of AyeM8y, mowing the lawn...

Dinah's Garden Photos

The next entry in the NINTH ANNUAL INFOMANIAC GARDEN PHOTOS EVENT is from Dinahmow of Mackay, Queensland, Australia.

Click to embiggen the smaller images...

Alpinia zerumbet, commonly known as shell ginger

Syzygium wilsonii,from now on, known as the Drag Queen, thanks to Jon.

Unopened bud of Syzygium wilsonii. They look like raspberries on steroids!

Tecomanthe hillii (Fraser Island creeper)

Brugmansia (Angel's trumpets)

Costus comosus (Red Tower Ginger)

Unnamed cactus

Petrea volubilis, commonly known as purple wreath, queen's wreath, sandpaper vine, and nilmani

Miss Scarlet's Garden Photo

The next entrant in the Ninth Annual Infomaniac Garden Photos Event is Miss Scarlet from Devon, England.

Click pic to enlarge

Apologies - all I have is this very green picture of a corner of my garden. Obviously it shows an electrical warning sign and some very overgrown bushes interspersed with ferns, brambles, hawthorn, and some rather attractive fencing.

I started trying to get my garden under control but it has started raining again, so I missed the rather large window of opportunity back in July... and this is the result.

Mr. DeVice's Garden Photos

Our next entry in the NINTH ANNUAL INFOMANIC GARDEN EVENT comes to us from Mr. DeVice in Norfolk, England.

Seen here without his hoe

The Mistress insists that you click to enlarge these garden photos. 

p.s. Mr. Device's descriptions are underneath the photos.

These are the south-facing gardens of the new DeVice Mansion nearly five months after moving in.  It was just a swamp for the first month, then we had the paysho (because “pat-ee-oh” is vulgar) extended and the lawn laid a month later in March.  The next two or three weeks were spent digging bags and bags of manure into the now dry, stone-filled concrete-like clay “soil”.  The red greenhouse turned up in May which was also when various plants were put in, seeds were sown, and the three fruit trees in the lawn were planted.

 The paysho as seen from the DeVice Mansion’s south-east wing in mid-July.  And before a “Banned by Infomaniac” sticker is slapped to my forehead, the offending items are not mine – The Mother left them there and I didn’t notice when I took the photo! Note from The Mistress: Oh right, blame your mother.

The shady spot behind the garage brightened up with some ferns, hostas, and beautiful foxgloves (again, from mid-July).

The view from the arbour in mid-August.  That’s a small vegetable patch at the back next to the greenhouse.

My lovely Eucomis comosa “Sparkling Burgandy” (aka Pineapple lilies which, I think, have featured a few times in my Garden Photos Event photos?) on the paysho. Note from The Mistress: Go back to previous events and check it yourself, you lazy baggage.

When I’m sick to death of everything and everyone else and need to get away, I visit my little “garden” on the beach.  Beyond those pretty little flowers, amidst the marram grass, is my beach hideaway.

This is it. I constructed the little inukshuks which are usually still standing (mostly) whenever I return, which just goes to show that no one else ventures into my patch when I’m not there (and the sea rarely reaches this far in the summer).  Well, apart from birds and deer (their footprints are left in the sand).

This is the view – almost always free of human beings, fortunately.

Jeffery's Garden Photos

The next entry in the NINTH ANNUAL INFOMANIAC GARDEN PHOTOS EVENT is Jeffery from Philadelphia, USA. 

Click on photos for maximum viewing pleasure.

Gloriosa lilies

Orange clivia

Peony tulips

Marilyn tulips

Planter in front

Species crocus

Species red tulips

Yellow clivia

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