The Delargo Gardens - October

 well me dears I am usually late but this month I am very, very late. So apologies and lets move on quickly, the next post is due next week!

Salvias have taken centre stage and the garden would be bereft with out them at the moment. This is Salvia 'Embers Wish

Still refusing to stop flowering; Thunbergia 'Orange Beauty'

Salvia uliginosa (Bog Sage) has the most perfect blue flowers. We Love it.

Salvia 'Love & Wishes'

We instantly fall in love with some plants, others we learn to love because the do well for us when others don't. This is the later, Impatiens walleriana, also known as Busy Lizzie. It has not stopped flowering since May and is still in flower now and sits so well amongst our Ferns.

New for us this year is the most lovely and delicate Salvia “African Skies” [poss. hybrid of S. chamelaeagnea with S. scabra]

A firm favourite here at Delargo Towers, Salvia x guaranitica “Rockin' Fuchsia”

A plant no garden should be with out; the wonderful; Salvia 'Amistad complete with Ladybird.

More beauties. They look fab but their lovely little flowers are so difficult to get in focus. 

Salvia greggi “Mirage Cherry Red”

Salvia x jamensis “Nachtvlinder”. We have more little flowered Salvias which we love but as I said they they are hard to photograph.

Another 'can't be without' and non stop flowering plant. Geranium (poss x wallichianum) 'Rozanne'.

 There Tiz then me darlins. A little sparse but still some colour to enjoy. Lets hop on the Golf Carts and tour the rest of the estate. First to the VIP refreshment tent wins a bottle of Bolly sweetie.

The Cordyline lives ! and has a riot of Foxgloves to keep it company.

Hard to believe but this Pelargonium has only just decided to flower.

and I think this will be the last Begonia we will see this year. Fingers crossed they get through the winter outside.

This will also be the last update on our friendly giant; Mr Taro.

Just enough time for a sneak preview of the up and coming Fuchsia Fest, the lovely Lady Boothby.

Donny wants me to let you know that because this post is so late and will be backdated any comments will go straight to moderation and I will reply as soon as I can

We both hope you enjoyed your visit and Donny and I hope to see you soon.

Till then it's Ttfn from him

and Ttfn from me.

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TTFN

Air Fryer Madness

 Hello dears. I have recently bought an air fryer and as it is a new toy I am a bit obsessed with it.

Like when the Microwave first came into usage; people said, thought that they could do everything and anything.
Some people think that both are overrated.
Neither is true!
Each one is fabulous at what it does well in it's own way.
The good cook works out how to get the best out of both of them and avoids their weaknesses and failings  

An Air Fryer does not Fry anything! It is a small very, very hot fan oven and It's not new,

During World War II. William Maxson developed a “whirlwind oven:” a large, multi-layered oven that used a fan to blow hot air onto the food. this oven created a system of evenly heated food even from frozen.
Maxson patented his invention and sold the idea to the United States Army.
This early version of the air fryer was popular until the invention of the microwave.

Using Maxson’s fan and hot air technology, van der Weij created the air fryer as we know it today. He partnered with 'Philips' to release the modern version of an air fryer in 2010.

I would never be without my air fryer -
or my -
Fan Oven, Hob, Pressure cooker, Microwave, Deep fat fryer and slow cooker.
You can keep your Nija I don't need it (and you will never get a turkey leg in a Nija).