He we are again me dears with the first garden post proper of 2024. Winter is far from over and I am sure we will have some casualties but the garden is starting to slowly awake.
To our great surprise and delight the Ipheion uniflorum came into flower straight after a series of hard frosts. We went down to -6'c.
equally joyous is our Sarcococca hookeriana var. digyna “Purple Stem”.
The scent is so powerful it could blow your socks off.
That is about it for the highlights so lets start the tour of the grounds.
The Delargo gardeners have finally got around to erecting the trellis extension to the Eastern boundary fence. Unfortunately the work was not complete in time for the visit of the Delargo Towers official garden photographer.
But bless them, they look after the garden very well and are very cheap.
The Wallflowers are flowering and hopefully will put on more of a show latter on.
At 75 pennies a pop primulas ensure that there is colour in the garden no matter what the weather throws at us.
That's it for this month then me dears. I leave you with Donny who has found a sunny spot to soak up some sun.
Both Donny and I hope to see you back in the garden next month
But till then It's Ttfn from Donny
and it's Ttfn from me
Toodle-loo and Pip Pip.
January's mainly the "waiting room for Spring" - thank heavens for the Sarcococca! The daffs will be up before we know it, and fingers crossed we'll have a good show of colour again... Jx
ReplyDeleteOur first Daffodil will be open tomorrow - Roll on Spring.
DeleteI'll drink to that! Jx
DeleteAbsolutely the lift I needed today. LOVELY! And a belated but no less sincere 'Happy Birthday' Mme. Arcati!
ReplyDeleteThank you dear.
DeleteI'm so pleased that the garden gave you a bit of a lift. I find watching the plants wake up from their Winter sleep very uplifting too.
Ttfn
What delightful little flowers your Ipheion uniflorum are! And the Sarcococca showing reminds me that there's one just outside our paysho doors that needs repotting (The Mother bought it a year or two ago and it's languished on the hot, dry paysho, swamped by everything else).
ReplyDeleteA belated Happy Birthday to you, Madam A!
P.S. Your gardener on the far right does look very cheap. It's a wonder the others get anything done!
Thank you Mr De.
DeleteThe pretty little blue flowers of the Ipheion were an early surprise flower even before the Daffs, Sarcococca is a joy and I hope yours fares better this year.
As for the gardener Arthur; He is, rather wayward and needs to be taken in hand regularly.
Ttfn
Sie Engländer haben ein Gespür für Blumengärten.
ReplyDeleteAls wir von 1947 bis 1971 in der DDR lebten, pflegte meine Großmutter sorgfältig ihren Garten, was unserer Familie durch schwierige Zeiten half.
Mögen die zarten Blumen in ihrem Garten diesen Frühling wunderschön blühen.
(vvs)
Schön, dich wieder im Garten zu sehen, meine Liebe, und danke für deine netten Worte und dafür, dass du deine Erinnerungen an deine Großmutter teilst.
DeleteIch wurde 1957 geboren, weiß aber immer noch, wie wichtig es war, sein eigenes Gemüse anbauen zu können. Der Gemüseanbau macht vielen Menschen immer noch Freude, aber wir bevorzugen Blumen.