The Delargo Gardens - September

Hooray ! We have reached the September post and are now up to date, with the October issue pending.

 The garden is full to bursting point and full of colour too.

Any idea of design, restricted colour palates or having just 4 or 5 types of plant and repeat planting is out of the window !

 And we say 'good' to that !

 Let's have a riot of vulgarity.

 We love it.

The long hot Summer is in it's final stages but the Salvias are starting to kick into over drive.

 Salvia x guaranitica 'Amistad' this year is the best it has ever been.

After a slow start Salvia guaranitica 'Blue Enigma' is doing nicely.

 Ipomoea(Mina) lobata (Spanish Flag) is looking amazing.

 our dahlia has never looked better and for so long !

 Nor the Thunbergia  alata this year we tried  'African Sunset'

Our fernery.

Cobaea scandens

 A lovely regal pelargonium that thinks it is a rhododendron.

 and new for us this year Petunia “Surfina”, pink. It has been a mass of flower since early spring and has not gone as scruffy as our normal
Petunias'

We sowed a few nasturtiums to fill gaps and this was all we got !

We did sow very very late though.

 Another new plant this year, a begonia from 'Wilko'

I have never liked them but it has looked fab all summer.

 It is not the end of summer yet just the beginning of the end

But time to think a head to the Spring with bulbs and pansies.

 So pleased with our garden, so pleased the blog is up to date

and

So pleased Doncaster Donny is back where he belongs,

ready to wave -

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The Delargo Gardens - August

Here we I am again me dears, feverishly trying to get back up to date for October.

This was how the gardens of 'Delargo Towers' looked in August

I must say for a new garden it looked fab and we are feeling a bit chuffed with ourselves. 

It really has filled up very quickly. 

 and is putting on a good show.

Salvia 'Amistad'  has grown massively and is flowering well.

 A little behind but doing it's best to catch up, Salvia uliginosa

 We didn't know we still had Nicotiana sylvestris until some stray seedlings popped up.

 a climber no garden should be with out, Cobaea scandens.

 and another must, Ipomoea (Mina) lobata (Spanish Flag).

It has been stunning this year.

  This rather jolly climber with it pretty leaf and red flowers is 

Ipomoea multifida

 Here, it is growing up the tree lily now that it a finished flowering.

 We thought we had lost the Asarina (Maurandya) scandens

which would have been sad but again it had seeded itself into odd pots.

 This year we thought to try a different variety of Thunbergia.

I think next year we will stick to the normal orange.

 The phlox, still flowering it's heart out

 Our new fernery.

 

complete with  Ipomoea tricolor ,  bizzies -

 
& climbing fuchsia, Lady Boothby.

 Fuchsia Elfriede Ott has flowered all summer.

 Unusualy subtle for us Holly`s beauty

 Baskets galore, to hide the rather ugly fence.

 To end our little tour we have our gorgeous Dahlia.

There tiz then me darlings

Now I did say the Doncaster Donny would not make an appearance until I was up to date. 

He has however sneaked into two photo

Did you see which ones boys & girls ?

Answers on a post card or a sealed envelope please.

To reach me by no later than yesterday.

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The Delargo Gardens - July

Here we are then me lovelies ( still playing catch up )

With the post-dated July garden.

 After a cold late Spring every thing is a couple of weeks behind the norm.

 Even so, July was lovely and we were very pleased with our new little garden.

 We have lots of old friends from the old garden. Salvia x guaranitica 'Amistad' with Monarda didyma 'Red Colours'

 

Our Dahlia, one of the "Bishop's Children" is really starting show off !

While the herbaceous border we have squeezed into troughs is filling up nicely.

Lobelia “Fan Burgundy”

Campanula medium “Deep Blue”

Old and new together, Salvia transylvanica grown for seed a few years ago and the new Salvia x jamensis “Nachtvlinder”

Also new this year Geranium sanguinium “Max Frei” -

- and Penstemon hybrid “Phoenix Pink”

Words fail me when it comes to our old fave, Phlox paniculata.

If you look closely you can see that the Hawk-moths love it too

Pure joy

Another new addition is this single flowered black hollyhock !

Ok it is white and double ! Thank you Home Base ( not )

Sad news we have lost our Tower lilies to disease but the one our friends, Mark, gave us a few, years ago and they have more than made up the loss.

They were spectacular !

and the scent divine.

Thank you Mark.

With the move we didn't do much in the way of seed sowing this Spring.

Ipomoea was a must however. This year it is tricolor 'Kniola's Black'

Or Kniola's not Black as I like to call it.  It is a joy any way.

As were the Petunia, “Frenzy” mixed

Fuchsia 'Winston Churchill and Jack Shahan.

I intend to give the Fuchsias a post to themselves soon so not to many this post. This is Thalia  with a lovely Pelargonium grandiflorum.

Thumbergia just coming into flower.

Now then me dears most people know I hate bizzy lizzies and you might have spotted the bright pink one earlier ( Impatiens walleriana “Dezire Rose” ) if you were paying attention. How ever needs must, it and this Impatiens hawkeri (New Guinea impatiens “Petticoat Allegro” ) fill difficult spots around the garden with colour.

You may be wondering where Donny the Doncaster gnome is. Well to tell you the truth he is refusing to make an appearance until the blog is up to date

In the meantime here is a jolly visitor to the garden this month ectemnius cavifrons

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