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. 

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.