The Delargo Gardens - August

Here we is again me dears; where has the month gone? Time has flown by and we are into late Summer already.

 As you know our Blue Lace Cap Hydrangea was definitely pink last month. We applied a bluing agent but to late to change the open blooms but the new shoots are a much nicer colour and next year we will make sure it is all bluer than blue.

 The Begonias have flowered well all Summer and are still looking fab

While the other phlox were at their peak last month this one - Blue Paradise - has waited till now and is rather lovely.

 

Rosa Gertrude Jekyll must be enjoying the extra sun and has given us a second flush.

  I am over the moon with both of our new Thalictrum, above is delavayi 

  above is Thalictrum Hewitt's Double

There we are then me darlins, It's time to grab your hip flask and jump up into the Land Rover for a tour of our vast estate.

and a new stop on the tour, the 'Top Field'

 

 some of the Salvias started flowering last month; this month they are looking fab but it will be next month that they all should be strutting their stuff. in the meantime we can enjoy these

Salvia Love and Wishes

Salvia 'Day Glow'

Salvia Rockin 'Fuchsia'

Salvia 'Amistad'

 

Salvia greggii 'Mirage Cherry Red'

 I adore the foliage of this Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost'

 Before you head off for to the VIP Champagne Tent there is just enough time for a sneak preview of the Fuchsia Fest. - Lady Boothby

There tiz me dears. We hope to see you next month for a Salvia extravaganza but till then -

It's Ttfn from Donny

 and it's Ttfn from me

Toodle-Pip. 
 

The Delargo Gardens - July

 Hello me dears. July is all about Lilies, and ours put on a Fab display in time for London Gay Pride, just as they should.

 

More from them in a bit, but first some amazing garden-changing news. Not one but two of the evil trees that block our sunlight have been chopped down! The scruffy cherry tree (middle left) and the massive Black Walnut (top right). We are over the moon, and the plants have sunstroke.

 

The lilies have been amazing this year and I am resolved to have more, more, more next year

Hemerocallis, commonly called the Day-lily, is not actually a lily but still fab - this is 'Crimson Pirate'

our late flowering Clematis are doing well, this is  'Comtesse de Bouchaud'.

and this is Clematis 'Rouge Cardinal'

Thunbergia and Begonia 'Pendula'.

We love Begonia boliviensis; they are so well behaved and will flower like mad until the first frost.

Begonia boliviensis 'Santa Cruz' with our new purple Phlox.

Pink Phlox with Geranium Rozanne and the last blooms of Campanula medium, common name Canterbury bells.

The stunning Lobelia Starship Scarlet Bronze

The colour of Hydrangea macrophylla Black Steel Blue is fab but it ain't Blue.

We both have a passion for Thalictrum. We have had Thalictrum aquilegiifolium for years; it flowers in late spring, as does our Thalictrum 'Elin'. Now we have this little gem, Thalictrum delavayi. (We also have Thalictrum 'Hewitt's Double' in flower but I couldn't get even a reasonable photo of it.)

Time to get to the nitty gritty. The evil black walnut tree filled this space and then some. It was massive. What you see in the photo was just a small side trunk from the main tree. They had to come back the next day to finish it off. Our garden has been transformed.

With tree.

Without tree and with light!

On with the tour. Some photos are with the tree still standing and some without 

There tiz then, me darlins. We have just enough time for the sneak preview of the Fuchsia Fest - Fuchsia 'Tennessee Waltz' 

Donny doesn't seem to like the sunshine and has only been coming out on gloomy days. I am sure he will get used to it and I will buy him some sunglasses.

 Hope you enjoyed your visit to the gardens of Delargo Towers and we look forward to seeing you next time

Till then it's Ttfn from Donny

and Ttfn from me

Toodle-Pip.