4 photos - The irreplaceable Isabella Blow (1958–2007)

Isabella Blow. Known for her flamboyant style. She was a pivotal, irreplaceable force in fashion due to her ability to discover and nurture avant-garde talent.such as Philip Treacy and Alexander McQueen.

We saw her once getting off a train in Victoria station.  A hat box dangling from each wrist and a porter carrying her Louis Vuitton luggage. She was just getting of her train and it looked like a fashion shoot and the whole world was suddenly more glamorous. 

 

She was extraordinary. disinherited from her aristocratic family leaving her financially insecure she some how managed to fund her obsession with Fashion including buying Alexander McQueen entire graduate collection.

Fashion designers, editors, writers, photographers are one thing but someone has to buy the stuff and live the life and that someone was Isabella Blow.

She didn't have an easy life but she was amazing 

Pip pip. 

The Delargo Gardens - February

Here we are again me dears in the garden for February. I always say February is the the cruellest month. Not this year. According to my new Max/Min temperature toy we have not dipped below 0'c. +0.3'c to be exact.

 

Indoors the Cymbidium Orchid has come into flower which is always a great joy for us.
 

 

 The harbingers of the Spring.

 

 Iris reticulata

Ipheion has just started to flower and should look fab next month

Talking of next moth, 1st March is St. David's Day. 

Our Daffs are all getting themselves ready for the big day. 

Not many crocus this year but to be fair we didn't plant any.

Less showy by far but still attractive, Sarcococca. What it lacks in flower size it makes up for with an intense vanilla perfume. 

Everything is sprouting shooting and a budding so let's have our tour of the whole estate.

As fab as the early Spring flowers are we must not forget the winter stalwarts that have given us colour in the dark months

We even have some Fuchsias in flower this is ' Just Pat'

Donny is getting excited with the coming of Spring. Meteorological spring begins on March 1, while astronomical spring starts on March 20, the day of the spring equinox.

 

Till then me dears it's

Ttfn from Donny

and

It's Ttfn from me. 

Matador, Rat-tat-ador

 

 Four photos, a GIF and a Video. I would like to add at this point that I disapprove of All blood sports including Boxing. I am however fascinated by Matadors. they are so Macho it's camp

 

 

 

There was once a shady dame from Seville 

 

'Dressed like a vamp or a Pamplona tramp
She could stampede the menfolk at will

One day came a world famous matador
Rat-tat at her door'

 

 

Toodle Pip.

The Delargo Gardens - January

 Hello me dears. We are back from Spain and it's time to catch up on the Gardens in January. There is not that much to see so it won't take long.

 Hoorah for Cyclamen and for Primulas.

 Now grab your thermals, it's time to jump in the Land Rover for a tour of the estate. 

 

We still have a little Mexican Flea Bane refusing to stop flowering.

 as well as a few Fuchsias that just keep going, this one is one of my faves but unsurprisingly not looking it's best. - 'Abbé Farges'

 We have not seen Donny since before we went to Spain. He is in a major sulk because we didn't take him on holiday with us. We had to resort to using the security cameras to find him.

 By next month I think we will have a bit more to see and enjoy - Roll on Spring

But till then it's Ttfn from Donny

and

Ttfn from me

Toodle Pip 

Rabbie Burns, Where's Your Troosers?

 It's Burns night tomorrow and I join in with my Scottish family in celebrating the great poet and working class hero, Robert Burns along with the haggis and of course the Kilt. 

 

 

I've just come down
From the Isle of Skye
I'm not very big and I'm awful shy
And the lassies shout when I go by
Donald, where's your troosers?

Let the wind blow high
Let the wind blow low
Through the streets, in my kilt I'll go
All the lassies say hello
Donald, where's your troosers?

 

 

 

"Lang may yer lum reek" 

Toodle Pip

A Year on one Page - The Gardens of Delargo Towers 2025

Here we are then me darlins with 2025 in the garden on one page. I started doing this a few years ago and it's amazing to see the garden change through seasons and the years.

 

January 2025 

 

February 

 

March

 

April

 

May

 

June

 

July

August

 

September

 October

 

November

 December

 

 

 Hope you enjoyed that as much as we did and Donny and I are looking forward to welcoming you into the garden in 2026

 

 

Till the it's Ttfn from Donny

and it's

Ttfn from me

 Pip Pip.