Tuesday 28 May 2019

The Delargo Gardens - May

Well me dears here we are again and what a month it has been, cold and damp at the start which held things back from the early start that they had. 
May has none the less transformed the garden and we will be ready for June to 'burst out all over'

So lets kick off with this months stars

Aquilegia


and a newbie to the garden this year


Aquilegia chrysantha “Yellow Queen”


Ipomoea tricolor (Morning Glory) “Kniola's Black” grown from the seeds of last years plants


Graceful and frothy Hesperis matronalis it has a lovely scent too


 We have moved Tradescantia andersoniana into a better position to get more light and to show it off better.


Our five-foot Thalictrum delavayi


looking gorgeous.


Geranium × johnsonii “Johnson's Blue” is not doing so well under the trees so we might have to move it too.


Our first salvia  to flower this year Salvia x jamensis “Nachtvlinder”. It realy is a stunning colour


We do miss the themed beds in the last garden so Jon has created a mainly yellow and red area.
This Osteospermum is certainly an eye catcher


As is our mimulus from last year


It is very hardy and we now have loads just from the two original plants


New this year and raised from tubers is this very jolly little dahlia 'Topmix Red'  it does'nt seem to know that it is meant to flower from July


Geranium × oxonianum 'Wargrave Pink'


The dianthus bowl has new tenants this year. It is, and smells lovely but we seem to have lost the name


Big loud and brassy it certainly is but we love our big Begonia × tuberhybrida “Sangria”


The exquisite Scilla peruviana (Portuguese Squill)


now has an exciting new neighbour, Geranium maderense


All of the full on 'pottering about' we did last month has reaped it's reward and the garden has come together rather nicely. This was the view from the kitchen window at the beginning of the month.


looking up the garden mid May.


The new installation ( Torquay Round-about ) is coming on.


Rosa 'Veilchenblau' has started into flower as I write this in the last week of the month




Fuchsia gallery


and Fernery are both filling up.


We have a bevy of newbie fuchsias


and more seedlings than we know what to do with.


 While indoors in the parlour our magnificent cymbidium orchid is still going and still looking fab



All in all the garden is looking good and we are rather pleased with it
So till next time me lovelies

 ttfn


Monday 13 May 2019

Madam Arcati is now Fully Restored & Functioning


Hello me dears,  As you know most of the photos on my previous blog were hosted through Photobucket; as of July 5, 2017 they changed their terms of service without any warning and destroyed my and thousands of other peoples blogs.

It has taken me a while but I am pleased to announce that 'The random jottings of Madam Arcati' is now fully restored and functioning in it's entirety from March 2011 until today 13th May 2019.

The evil Rupert Murdoch and his cronies are vanquished (well on this blog any way) and I am free of them

'The random jottings of Madam Arcati' blog is now an archive.


It, together with this blog, now has a month by month record of the Gardens of 'Delargo Towers' all the way back to 2011.
It has been an interesting exercise and I have enjoyed looking back on my past rather random wanderings.
I can heartily recommend that you have a look too.

Till next time then my lovelies

ttfn