The Delargo Gardens April

 Oh My Gosh. It is mid May and I and I am only just posting the April garden Blog. The time has just flown by so lets get on with a whistle stop trip of the Gardens of Delargo Towers as they were in April.

April was a month of two halves, starting in late spring with the Tulips and ending in early Summer with Roses

Jasmin

 Thalictrum Aquilegiifolium 

 Self sown Mimulus 

Lily-of-the-valley in memory of my Mother

 Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost'  

Time to jump up into the land rover to to see the grounds of Delargo towers bursting into growth

 

 It is at this point of the tour that we will be introducing a new high light. Just as Monty Don has 'The Mound' in his garden we have had one of our own here at Delargo Towers. It has been constructed up towards the top field. Below is a photo of it being built.

and planted up.

on with the tour

 

 By the end of the month we were heading into May and into Summer.

Clematis 'Nelly Moser' 

 

 

Scilla Peruviana; Portuguese squill

 

Aquilegia Swan Yellow

The Essex Rose; grown from seed by the boys in Essex.

Joy of joys. this Amaryllis has been out in the garden feeling sorry for it self for a couple of years. This Spring it has decided to flower.

By popular request Donny has brought back the Fuchsia fest preview. This is - Hot Coals

Well there we are then me darlins. April in a nutshell. Hold on to your hats and we will be back in a week or two with the garden in May

Till then it's

Ttfn from Donny

and Ttfn from me

Toodle Pip. 

The Delargo Gardens March

 

Hello my lovelies. March is very late this year, well the garden post is. St David's Day has been and gone and we are almost in the middle of April as I type this but all of the photos were taken in March.

 

 

St. David's Day was on the 1st March

Wishing a belated Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus to all.

Daffodil and Tulip Lasagne; one slowly gives way to the other. 2 displays in 1 pot. In April it will just be Tulips.

 

these are two of my favourite Spring plants. Above is not a Dandelion it's Doronicum (Leopard's-bane) Below is not Forget-me-nots (Myosotis) but the wonderful Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost'. When the flowers are over you get amazing silver foliage right through the Summer and then next year it's back again. Fabulous

 

 

March was jolly and colourful in the garden and we moved into Spring with out a frost. 

Now then me dears tiz time for a tour of our vast Estate.

We rarely show much of the front gardens so to make amends here is the fabulous cherry tree down the road.

and some very sweet Narcissus on our window sills. 

I think that the cymbidium has decided to flower for ever.

There tiz me dears, Donny has almost forgiven me for being so late but he is still annoyed that I didn't manage to take one single photo of a Fuchsia for the entire month of March despite having a good few in bloom.

I will make up for it in April ready for your next visit but till it's -

Ttfn from Donny

and Ttfn from me

Toodle Pip. 

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.