4 Photos - Random & Odd

Four more from the archive

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4 photos - from the Archive @ random #1

 I am enjoying this 4 photo game. Here are four more. This time taken at random from the photographic archives of the Delargo Foundation Trust.

 Cristóbal Balenciaga

 

 

 Mick Jagger as the cabaret drag performer ‘Greta’ 

 

 

The poet Lorca and Salvador Dalí

  

I have no idea what this is or from but isn’t just über jolly? I want to go to parties like that.

PS

It could be from the original film of Moulin Rouge but that is just a guess.

 

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Four Photos - My Fanny

I am enjoying Mr Device's four photo game ( Click to see ) so much, both posting and reading others that I thought I would give it anther go.

As you know I am obsessed with Fanny Cradock and have a lot but by no means all of her cookery books. In 1970 a series of magazines was produced to accompany her TV programs. There were 80 in total and I have all of them in a bound 5 volume set.  Let me share my joy of Fanny.

 

There are another 76 if you would like to see more !

Ttfn. 

PS

4 Shillings and 6d in 1970 would be 22.5 pence today - 0.31 US Dollars

The Delargo Gardens - May

It's May and the garden has exploded into growth and flower.

 Sown from seed last year the Foxglove Excelsior is a joy and a wonder.

We had to wait till the end of the month for Jon's Rose - 'Veilchenblau' to bloom and it will be at it's best next month methinks.

My Rose - Gertrude Jekyll is one of the first of all roses to flower and has looked and smelt stunning all month.

The Essex Rose was a seedling grown by the boys in Essex. It doesn't do much and the flowers only last a couple of days but I still love it.

Our replacement Jasminum officinale is still very small but big on scent nonetheless.

We have had Scilla peruviana for a few years now. It usually is in full bloom while we are on holiday but we caught it full blast this year. It truly is a wonderful thing. 

We are not sure of the name of our lovely new, blue Salvia but it is stunning.

Thalictrum aquilegiifolium. I love this plant more than I can say, so much so we now have four other types of Thalictrum to keep it company.

A new obsesion to add to the list; Clematis. This is 'Nelly Moser'

 Clematis 'Rouge Cardinal'

Clematis General Sikorski

and Clematis 'Comtesse de Bouchaud'

Lilly of the Valley in memory of my Mother.

Our old regal Pelargonium finally gave up the ghost after a good few years and I think this is a worthy and indeed similar replacement. 

We all love Aquilegia But the tall stems of  the Swan Series make it extra special. Grown from seed a few years ago now it seeds itself.

Mimulus; another self seeder from last year. 

A new display for the kitchen window.

The first Begonia  to flower is Santa Cruz. The others won't be far behind and will flower until the first frosts.

Tradescantia virginiana

Thunbergia is a fabulous climber that no garden should be without. It is still tiny and still has a lot of growing to do but it has decided to flower already.

I grew Campanula medium, common name Canterbury bells from seed last year. The first one to flower is fab but it sister plants that have just come into flower are über Fab. They will feature in the June post i'm sure

Now tiz time for the Grand Tour of our vast estate. 

The tour ends in the tea rooms as always and I thought it would be jolly to take a snapshot out of the window.

Another new feature is 'Fern of the Month' and this month It's Athyrium niponicum var. pictum 'Silver Falls' which I adore.

We also have a new occasional feature; the 'Sir David Attenborough bequest'. 

This little chap is the juvenile stage of a ladybird, They are amazing. They eat aphids and other nasties. This one is having a little rest before it's metamorphosis into a ladybird. It has already started pupation and with a bit luck we can watch the whole thing.

Donny is pleased to announce the first Fuchsia to appear in this years sneak preview of the 'Delargo Towers Annual Fuchsia Fest' - Fuchsia Deep Purple.

There we are then me darlins. We hope you have enjoyed your visit to the gardens and that you will come back again soon.

Until then -

 it's Ttfn from Donny

and It's Ttfn from me 

Toodle Loo 

Four Photos - F J&C D K

Hello me dears, the lovely Mr Device has started a four photo game so I thought I would join in with -

Four T V chefs from a while ago that I adored then and now (Jennifer Paterson & Clarissa Dickson Wright count as one)

Fanny Cradock

Jennifer Paterson & Clarissa Dickson Wright

Dorothy Sleigtholme from 'Farm House Kitchen'

 and of course, the Master of TV cookery programmes, Mr Keith Floyd.

How many do you remember ?

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The Delargo Gardens - April

Here we are again me lovelies with the garden in April and on time for once and it's Tulip time.

As our American Sisters would say; 'They give you a lot of bang for your buck'. All of these are crammed into just 3 pots. They are planted on different levels and as the first to flowers fade they are cleared to make space for the upcoming flowers.

 

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In a small garden succession planting is everything. Our 'Tête-à-Tête'  daffs are over but we now have these.

 

 I have never neglected a plant like I neglect our Auriculas but they come back every year.

Brunnera

  A double flower on Doronicum 'Little Leo' Leopard's bane. How fab is that!

Ipheion

Our recently divided Geranium phaeum. We now have two.

What would Spring be without the scent of Wallflowers.

There Tiz then me darlins and now it's time to jump up into the Land-rover and tour the rest of our vast estate.

 

 Our two newly planted Clematis

The foxgloves are now big enough to flower and as we sowed them not last year but late the the year before we are looking forward to a good display this year.

Great news. the Taro has come through another Winter totally unprotected. It might not look like much now but just and wait and see what it will do.

The Fens are unfurling and Donny is already getting excited to see what the garden will do next month.

April Has been fab but roll on May when I think the garden will really kick off.

Till the It's

Ttfn from Donny

and

It's Ttfn from me.

Toodle loo and Pip Pip.