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There's several of these plants in the Esplanade gardens that are currently flowering and they have these massive flower heads forming - unfortunately there's nothing in the image to provide a sense of scale. The sun was catching this one in front of a dark shaded wooded area behind which provided a perfect background. They instantly for some reason reminded me of a Triffid from the movie 'Day Of The Triffids'.
A little online detective work and we think this is a Beschorneria Yuccoides (Mexican Lily).
© Dominic Scott 2021
Gardens - I love these amazing plants and I always think of them as Triffids though their proper name is gunnera. They get massive in the summer and are great to shelter under in rain showers!
Our neighbour's having a spot of bother... Can't say we didn't warn her.
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I'll be honest; I'm not reading DotT, I'm reading Trouble With Lichen. But I didn't have any lichen to hand...
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The Day of the Triffids (2009) Is about an two separate events that cause an apocalypse. The second being The Triffids, mobile, meat eating plants. Triffid oil saved the world from global warming but what will save the world from The Triffids once they have been released and most of the population has been incapacitated by blindness. One of the best parts of Part 1 was how Torrence (Eddie Izzard) survives a the plane crash he is involved in. It was brilliant. I do not know how plausible it was but it was brilliant how he quickly improvised.
Part 2 was when what was left of the world falls apart. I thought the spore solution would work. Too bad. Torrence’s obsession with Jo Playton (Joely Richardson) is something the viewer has seen before. An obsession that over powers reason and logic to the detriment of all that are around. Cough*Moby Dick*End cough.
I thought they would slap on a happy ending and tie it off but they did not. The Day of the Triffids (2009) has a bleak ending. By, by world as we knew it.
There is one logic flaw in the two parter and probably in the book its based on as well: Why grow and maintain Triffids in populated area? Why not have the Triffid farms on islands and in barren areas like deserts? That way, if they ever escaped, the island would keep them secluded, away from people and the barren desert would kill them (the heat plus the lack of food and water). If these precautions had been taken, the book and the two parter would not have been very interesting though.
Giant aliens,
Block my path.
What has earth done,
To arouse their wrath?
I once read a story about this species,
And know there is nothing I can do,
Alas, but the day of the Triffids,
Finally has come true!
Poem: Jan Elemans
2014
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Based on a book by John Wyndham,
Day of the Triffids, 1951
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Taken as seen. The onions look like triffids ... :-D
The triffid is a fictitious tall, mobile, prolific and highly venomous plant species, the titular antagonist in John Wyndham's 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids.
Since 1951, when The Day of the Triffids was first published, the word "triffid" has become a popular British English colloquial term for large, overgrown or menacing-looking plants.
Triffids are tall, carnivorous, mobile plants capable of aggressive and seemingly intelligent behavior, which arrived on Earth as spores from a meteor shower. The meteor shower causes blindness in the people who view it. Later, the unwelcome visitors move about the countryside by “walking” on their roots, appear to be able to communicate with each other, and possess a deadly whip-like venomous sting that enables them to kill their victims and feed on the corpses.
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrin0N8r1Ls
I can almost hear them clicking... A wonderful novel if you have never read it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids
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A previously unknown photo taken inside the first Triffid Nursery in Worthing, West Sussex, England. Happy Halloween!
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The brief for this animation was to create a short sequence of a 16-bit video game based around the the conflict between man and nature. I chose to (loosely) adapt John Wyndham's 1951 novel 'The Day of the Triffids' into an arcade brawler.
Popular Library 411, New York, 1952
Complete and Unabridged
Originally published as The Day of the Triffids
After a shower of blazing lights in the sky, a plague of blindness befalls the entire world and allows the rise of a deadly and seemingly intelligent species of plant. The novel was the basis for the 1962 British film "The Day of the Triffids" starring Howard Keel:
Arrangement of Flowers at the botanical gardens of Villa Taranto, Verbania Pallanza, Italy. www.picfair.com/pics/05350497-invasion-of-the-flowermen
After a shower of blazing lights in the sky, a plague of blindness befalls the entire world and allows the rise of a deadly and seemingly intelligent species of plant. The novel was the basis for the 1962 British film "The Day of the Triffids" starring Howard Keel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqrLqg3w6AU
We are a household that loves Christmas - of this there can be no doubt. We always have a few Christmas trees around the house, with the biggest being in the hallway. We got a tree when we first moved in which always seemed to do the job and then last year Sue decided to try a new slimline one to save a bit of space. It was a nice tree, but it was VERY slim, and didn't have a lot of presence.
This year, she suggested that we go for a real tree and we collectively decided that that was a good idea.
And in principle it was.
As usual, a 10ft tree was duly ordered. What got delivered was possibly confused with a delivery to a metropolitan borough council. It was thirteen and a half feet tall. The ceiling is a little over eleven foot six.
So we got chopping. On the second attempt we managed to get it cut so that it would fit. Having got it vertical and stable we then cut the retaining strings. Oh dear.
It was at this point that a strange man on horseback knocked on the door, saying "I am Tharrowmere of Arlish, and I seek to consort with the elves".
The thing is beyond stupidly big. It's nine feet across at the base. It fills the room. It has to be trimmed. Possibly by as much as 50% on each branch.
And I absolutely love it. :D
Royal Ontario museum exhibition : It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection , Royal Ontario Museum , Toronto , Ontario , Canada , Martin’s photographs , January 4. 2020
Royal Ontario museum exhibition : Day of the Triffids 1963 movie , It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection , Royal Ontario Museum , cropped Photograph , Martin’s photographs , Toronto , Ontario , Canada , January 4. 2020
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BBC 1 Day Of The Triffids:- This exciting, fast-paced drama is based on John Wyndham's best-selling post-apocalyptic novel, The Day Of The Triffids, published in 1951.
In the not too distant future, man's search for an alternative fuel supply leads him to uncover the ominous Triffid, a crop now cultivated for its fuel that seems to have a life of its own.
But when spectators gather worldwide for a much anticipated solar storm, billions are left blinded and the few sighted survivors watch as society collapses into chaos.
The Triffids, meanwhile, find their way out of captivity. Free to roam the planet with a fatal sting, and a retributive taste for human flesh, the Triffids begin rapid breeding.
Now Dr Bill Masen (Dougray Scott) must lead the brave in their epic battle against the Triffids' reign of terror in what could be the last days of mankind.
Royal Ontario museum exhibition : Day of the Triffids 1963 movie , It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection , Royal Ontario Museum , Martin’s photographs , Toronto , Ontario , Canada , January 4. 2020
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Kirk Hammett Collection
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It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection
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Day of the Triffids Classic Vintage Horror Movie Posters - Giclees of classic horror movie films, posters printed and framed in USA by Museum Outlets
The paranoia grows like the vegetation in this photo, shots that look well exposed and centered when they shuffle out of photoshop, continue to fall prey to the ghost in the machine when uploaded, oh well I'll overcome it one day.... maybe.
Wildlife Photographer of Year 2019 Exhibition and Bloodsuckers : Legends to Leeches Exibition at Royal Ontario museum , Toronto Ontario , Canada , January 4. 2020
Royal Ontario museum exhibition : Day of the Triffids 1963 movie , It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection , Royal Ontario Museum , cropped Photograph , Martin’s photographs , Toronto , Ontario , Canada , January 4. 2020
Royal Ontario museum exhibition : It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection , Royal Ontario Museum , Martin’s photographs , Toronto , Ontario , Canada , January 4. 2020
Toronto
Kirk Hammett Collection
R.O.M.
Canada
Ontario
It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection
Royal Ontario Museum
Kirk Hammett lead guitarist from Metallica
January 2020
IPhone XR
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Royal Ontario Museum Exhibition
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Kirk Hammett
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Day of the Triffids
Day of the Triffids a 1963 movie
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019 Exhibition and Bloodsuckers : Legends to Leeches Exhibition
Theseus Walk, Islington. This was a location for the BBC TV 1981 production of 'Day of the Triffids.'
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The Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic novel about aggressive plants taking over the world, published in 1951 by the English science fiction author John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, under the pen-name John Wyndham. Although Wyndham had already published other novels using other pen-name combinations drawn from his lengthy real name, this was the first published under the John Wyndham pen-name. It established him as an important writer, and remains his best known novel. It has been made into one feature film (in 1962), three radio drama series (in 1957, 1968 and 2008), and two TV series (in 1981 and 2009). in 2003 the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read.