Delargo Towers Fuchsia Fest 2023

 Here we are me dears with the Delargo Towers annual Fuchsia Review of 2023.

Fuchsias always look fab and do so for such a long time, it is easy to take them a bit for granted. They often don't make it onto the blog as I try to show what is newly in flower each month through the seasons. They can be in flower from Spring to Autumn.

To make up for this every year we hold a 'Fuchsia Fest' here at 'Delargo Towers' to showcase our collection. This year we have the grand tally of  44  named varieties and will look at each Fuchsia in the collection in alphabetical order.

There are a lot to get through so with out any further ado, I declare the 'Delargo Towers Fuchsia Fest of 2023'  well and truly open!

Abbe Farges

Alison Patricia

Arno Van Bree

Bella Mariska

Bella Rosella

Billy Green

Blue Pearl

Bobolink

Border Queen

Caroline

Celia Smedley

Cliantha

CJ Howlett

Dark Eyes

Deep Purple

Devonshire Dumpling

Edie Lester

Elfriede Ott

Foolke

Hazel Elizabeth

Holly's Beauty

Hot Coals

Italiano

Just Pat

Katrina Thompsen

Lady Boothby

Lady Isobel Barnett

Louise Nicholls

Millennium

Molesworth

Pink Fantasia

Pink Rain

Preston Guild

Quasar

Queen Mary

Raspberry

Rivendell

Rose of Castile

Royal Velvet

Sheila Crooks

Swingtime

Ting-a-Ling

Viva Ireland

Walz Jubelteen

R. I. P.

The Sadly Lost and Departed

Bella Lydia

Border Raider

Ed Lagarde

Eruption

RAF

Sophisticated Lady

Well there we are then me dears. Donny and I hope you have enjoyed the our little Fuchsias Festival. Please make your way to the Moët & Chandon tent for some well deserved refreshment 

Roll on Spring, and shopping at the wonderfully grumpy Mr Baker's Fuchsia nursery in Essex. We are looking forward to seeing you back in the garden for more of the same in 2024

NB for Agnes Goldberg-DeWoofs

Wind resilient Fuchsia - fuchsia magellanica riccartonii growing wild on the Atlantic coast of Ireland.

Ttfn

Delargo Towers a year on one page 2023

 Here we are me dears in 2024 looking back on the last year in the garden. It was warmer and wetter than average and almost everything grew but enough of me wittering on, we have a whole year to get through so lets begin the Delargo Towers Garden Review 2023

January

 

 

February

 

March

April

May

 

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

We had an awful Spring, a hot Summer and a mild winter. Lets hope the weather is kind to us in 2024. Donny wants to reminds us that, -

Whether the weather be fine,
Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold,
Or whether the weather be hot,
We'll weather the weather
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not!

Hope you enjoyed looking back on 2023 and are looking forward to 2024 and the beginning of the garden year proper as much as we are.

Roll on Spring

and

Ttfn.