Presenting the
SIXTH ANNUAL INFOMANIAC GARDEN PHOTOS EVENT!
Before we get started, note that it is imperative to CLICK TO ENLARGE many of these photos! My blog's margins cannot show the full beauty and scope of these photos without clicking to embigify.
Moving right along...
LX in Texas, U.S.A.:
Wild Onion (Allium canadense) plants along Onion Creek near Austin, Texas. Note ingratiating Canada reference!...
Did I win yet?
(Editor's note: "No.")
JON in London, England:
It has been quite a flower-ful year here at Dolores Delargo Towers, with (thankfully for once) a generally warm Summer.
We began with a rather dull and miserable early Spring, which meant the herbaceous plants took a long time to show themselves.
But once the sun did begin to shine, everything bloomed magnificently! From daffs, snowdrops, violas, anemones, chionodoxa and wallflowers...
...through delphiniums, geraniums, centaurea, polemonium, kniphofia, alliums, lobelia, heliotrope, aquilegias, lilies and foxgloves...
...to the full flush of crocosmia, dahlias, salvias, cobaea, cleome, verbena, nicotiana, coreopsis, phlox, monarda, ipomoea and penstemons, most of which will keep on flowering till winter.
We also went mad on fuchsias this year, and have now amassed a collection of thirty varieties (gulp)...
Oh, yes - and we have discovered that we have a
Drag Queen Fox, who left us this buried in the middle of the flower bed in March!
Apart from that - it's been stunning.
MR. DeVICE at Castle DeVice in Norfolk, England:
After much hand-wringing, I managed to whittle down my collection to two photos:
A somewhat blurry
panoramic shot of the back garden (except the south aspect as it's just a fence) because I remember lamenting last year that I hadn't any photos of the whole garden...
...and a shot of the pots and border next to the house (ruined by a Cedplop, as usual)...
I've no photos of the front as it's mostly driveway and lawn (yawn), although, when the light's right, one can still see sequins glittering in the gravel from
Dame Shirley Bassey's uninvited visit!
MISS SCARLET in Devon, England:
Okay, so perhaps this isn't my garden! This is an RHS garden (Royal Horticultural Society) which is just down the road from me... so it may as well be my garden. Sadly, my garden is now passed its best, which was long ago in 2010, long before I even lived here...
EROSWINGS in Texas, U.S.A.:
This is
Sweet Potato Chip, the sweet potato that I found germinating in my cupboard in April of this year. It was one of two sweet potatoes left over from a bag of sweet potatoes that I had bought during the Holidays.
I thought that I had used them all at the end of January, but two had rolled to the back of the cupboard, where they slowly germinated in the dark until I was cleaning out the bottom cupboards in April.
Long story short. I planted them in mulch (just mulch) in plastic buckets. One died, but Chip survived. It is a miracle as I am the Grim Reaper of plants. I am a plant killer. Chip is the first plant that I've ever successfully grown for more than a month! All other plants (including cacti & aloes) had died after three weeks.
What's more amazing, Chip survived three weeks of high winds that threatened to break its stem, recovered from a devastating pest infestation of three caterpillars that ate most of its leaves & killed LL Bean (the pinto bean I tried to grow), & endured a drought that baked the landscape brown, dead, & dry.
Chip is a survivor, & is living proof that even a clueless plant killer like me can grow plants! My farming family would be shocked to learn that I can actually grow plants!
MR. PEENEE in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.:
Sorry to be so laggard, but I've been terribly distracted by the muscular youth over at Chaturbate. As Mitzi, from Clutter from the Gutter, said "
It's like Sodom and Gomorah up in there."
The lovely tall pink flower that looks so much like hollyhocks, is, in fact, a California native mallow...
The charming tiny coral flowers are Rain Lilies...
Typical of the shaggy nature of my yard, the buddelia had a big season this spring...
The coleus were just filler for a blank space, but have done so well they seem to have turned into permanent tenants...
PRINCESS in south-east Australia:
"I think I was quite lucky to snap these shots in the 5 minutes of sunshine between downpours of rain but then I discovered that most of the garden was by then in shade anyway. Never mind. At least you can see that the Empress and I have been busy getting the place ready for MJ's photo shoot!"
Back yard rose garden....
Fernery with fishpond...
Orchid...
Wisteria...
NORMADESMOND in Minnesota, U.S.A.:
Norma's garden mascot...
And Norma's gardening ensemble...
That's it, Bitches! As we clean up our plots for next year's Garden Event...
...we here at Infomaniac thank you for showing off your beautiful plants and flowers. Same time, same place in 2017!
