The 'Delargo Towers' Garden - December

Here we are again me dears at the end of another Month and another Year.

December has given us some nasty frosts but most of the Half hardies seem to be hanging on. 

Our fingers are crossed that they fare as well next year come January and February.

The ivy leaf pelargonium is still flowering in the window box.

They have now been joined by viola Morpho and jolly yellow pansies.

The borders are looking a bit bleak and will of course will soon be looking a lot worse.

Our refugee centre.

We do still have some colour though -

We treated ourselves to the most enormous hippeastrum bulb on our visit the the last rhs show.

It is a thing of wonder !

Three flower stems -

and each flower as big as ones head.

Pure joy

Even the peace lilly has given us a bonus bloom this month.

Heading into 2017 the seedlings planted last October are looking good.

Orlaya grandiflora
Ammi majus
Consolida regalis
Canna indica, Red

 
Crambe cordifolia

and
Catananche

Happy new year me dears.

and

Happy gardening !

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The 'Delargo Towers' Garden - November

Well me dears it was a mild November, that is until we had a few harsh frosts towards the end of it.

Luckily these photos were taken just before they hit

The salvias and nicotiana were still flowering away.

as were the penstemons and coreopsis.

This nastertium is now just a black mush.

The fuchsias are still flowering though.

Winston Churchill.

Southgate.

Phyllis

and Billy Green.

All of the osteospermums have been very disappointing this year with lots of growth but few flowers.

This one seems to be trying to make up for it.

The wonderful cobaea is still doing it stuff even after the frost.

The pelargoniums are sheltering alongside the kitchen wall.

All in all the garden looked very good this month,

even if a little too cold and damp to sit out in it for long

Indoors the lovely Aeschynanthus “Hot Flash” is giving us another flush .

We treated our selves to a massive hippeastrum bulb while on a visit to the RHS urban garden show.

The front garden is still looking full with the nicotiana sylvestris refusing to die down or stop flowering

canna indica seedlings.

Behind the pansies is the tree dahlia which has died back to the ground after the last frost.
We are rather hopping the tuber survives the winter.

We have pansies and violas to cheer us up in the winter ahead

and a whole batch of seedlings in waiting.

Well that's November for you. 

We will see what December has in store for us

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