The Delargo Gardens - July

Here we are again me dears, late as usual.

July can be a difficult month as the early Summer flowers go over and the late Summer ones have yet to kick in but I think our little back yard has done OK:

As you know we love our cottage type borders with shades of pink and blue but we also love red and yellow too. this year we have decided to separate them on either side of the path and it seems to work.

We have a new Coreopsis grandiflora 'Sunfire' which fits the bill perfectly

 Our giant Begonia “Sangria” does too

Coreopsis grandiflora “Early Sunrise”

 We are over the moon with our new Hemerocallis 'Crimson Pirate'

 I never thought the two old left over seeds of Canary Creeper 'Tropaeolum peregrinum' would come to much but they have, and look good with Verbena bonariensis

 Ipomoea multifida - red

Monarda didyma 'Red Colours' has done well this year and is popping it head up all over the place which is a delight.

New this year and totally unexpected as they came up in a tray of Virginia Stock seedlings looking like a weed was this. It turned out to be Elegant Clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata); an absolute joy:

Also new and great fun is the Eucomis autumnalis ‘White Dwarf’:

New Guinea impatiens:

Last winter we bought a pack of two tubers of Begonia oderata 'Angelique'
You would think they would be the same -

But no! they are very different but that is OK; we like both, and yes - they do have a faint but rather nice fragrance.

Last year we planted a single flowered black hollyhock; it came up a double white. We saved and sowed its seeds. I am rather chuffed that they have all flowered in the first year:

All of last years lilies rotted away, so we bought another 'tree' lily 'On Stage':

...and lilium 'Stargazer'. Both have the most amazing scent. They really do blow your socks off.

This month also saw the return of some old friends,

Brodiaea laxa “Queen Fabiola:

Lobelia “Fan Burgundy”:

Never to be without - Asarina (Maurandya) scandens:

Last Summer we found some Agastache seedlings that had smuggled themselves in from the old garden. They are looking good now, and the bees love 'em:

Phlox paniculata:

Salvia 'Amistad' has kicked off nice and early this year:

It should look fab next month.

We saved the seeds from Ipomoea tricolor (Morning Glory) “Kniola's Black” last year and planted them all over the place this...

...including in "the fernery" as usual.

So there 'tiz, me lovelies!

At present 'Delargo Towers' is completely covered by scaffolding while undergoing restoration. 

So my next post might a bit different than the norm.

Do pop in and have a look but till then it's...

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The Delargo Gardens - June

Here we are at last me lovelies with the June update for the garden and yes, it is very very late

Well what a rotten month it was for the weather ! June did not burst out all over it just sat in the corner and sulked. The Met office said "June got off to a false start, the month has been cool and rather wet.Temperatures across the UK were widely below average and some places recorded almost two month’s worth of rain in one day."

That said, June is the month for roses and here at Delargo Towers we are rather proud of ours ( Jon grew it from a cutting, )  'Rosa 'Veilchenblau'

The 'pot' borders are filling up nicely as they should, if a tad behind.

 Our Campanula pyramidalis looked good last year but has gone into overdrive this month.

Zooming in as it were there are a few stars and a few jollies.

 Just to prove me jasmine did eventually flower

 Scabiosa columbaria and Geranium pratense “Purple Haze”

 Geranium × oxonianum 'Wargrave Pink'

  Aquilegia chrysantha “Yellow Queen”

 our fabulous dahlia seedling

 and a bought in this year as a dried out tuber  Dahlia top mix red

Now me dears, we all hate begonias'  but I love this Begonia Odorata Angelique  and our lovely orange one from last year. They are just great show offs

 Scilla peruviana (Portuguese Squill)

 Brodiaea Queen Fabiola

 I sowed some virginian stocks and a few of these came up . we grew them on to find out what it was.
It is an Elegant clarkia and we love it

 the fab Lilium martagon 'Arabian Night' has done us proud this year

We are so pleased with how the fernery is coming on.

 Now it does have to be said me dears that we have rather neglected the front garden, there is not much soil, light nor space but we are trying to make amends this year

 Hollyhocks, Osteospermum, foxgloves to flower next year and of course window boxes

 Nature is wonderful and has been kind to us. We knew she had given us a lovely Pseudofumaria (corydalis) lutea on our door step.

 But when we looked between our bins we discovered this !

 A wild orchid  !

what a joy

So till next time me darlins

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