The 'Delargo Towers' Garden - October

Here I am again me dears. I have at last started to repair the damage inflicted on me blog by Photobucket. Firstly I need to fill in the missing months' garden posts (May to January) then replace the missing four years' worth of photos on the previous posts

Wish me luck and here we go with

October 2017

 Not too many photos this month

But it is definitely the season for salvias.

Salvia coccinea has proved to be a true star:

 Salvia guaranitica “Blue Enigma”:

Salvia uliginosa (Bog Sage):

...with Salvia 'Amistad'.

 Cobaea scandens

A rather odd time for  auricula to flower but there it is.

 This species fuchsia 'Splendens' was fab and rather fun to grow

The dreaded gall mite had spread to many of the fuchsias but they still tried to do their best for us

That's it me dears, very short and sweet.

so till next time,

ttfn

The 'Delargo Towers' Garden - September

Here I am again me dears. I have at last started to repair the damage inflicted on me blog by photo Bucket Firstly I need to fill in the missing months garden posts ( May to January ) then replace the missing four years worth of photos on the previous posts

Wish me luck and here we go with
September 2017

 For us the whole point of a garden is 'somewhere nice to sit with a glass of wine'

 Well, we certainly archived that

 and the garden was looking lush.

 Still flowering, but past its first flush, Phlox paniculata; and Salvia uliginosa in the background

 Penstemon mixed colours – cottage garden variety

 Salvia 'Amistad'

 Asarina (Maurandya) scandens

 Up in the hot colours border

 Everything was doing very well

 New for us, and from seed, Salvia coccinea

 Pyracantha

  

Salvia coccinea

Again from seed and only just starting to flower, Mina/Ipomoea lobata - 'Spanish Flag'

 Coreopsis grandiflora "Early Sunrise"

 Pelargonium, “Calliope” Dark Red

 Our dahlias 'The Bishops Children'

 A lovely pink ivy leaf  Pelargonium from Mr Baker in Essex

 Coboea scandens

 We had four apple trees - and nobody who likes apples !

 The project  for next year was to have been a 'mainly white' border. 

(we already had an area that had white - Mirabilis jalapa, foxgloves, Oriental poppy and Iochroma australe - in place)

 but it was never to be.

Another never to be was the 'Giants' Border'

with not one but two Crambe cordifolia and a Dahlia imperialis

The Crambe should have looked like this one at Kew but i never saw it in flower.

It is not often that I show the front garden.

This is taken through the sitting room window.

Nicotiana a-go-go !

Well there we are then, me dears

Till next time

ttfn

The 'Delargo Towers' Garden - August

Here I am again me dears. I have at last started to repair the damage inflicted on me blog by Photobucket. Firstly I need to fill in the missing months garden posts (May to January) then replace the missing four years' worth of photos on the previous posts

Wish me luck and here we go with
August 2017

Moving into late summer some things have finished and 

some have not got into their late summer swing

Dahlias and fuchsia still looking good

Winston Churchill

The Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) looked amazing

Monarda didyma, 'Red Colors'

Ipomoea multifida - red:

...with thunbergia alata

Canna indica,

Cobaea scandens

The fuchsias on the wall were having a bit of a rest ( they don't like the heat )

Ipomoea multifida again

The first ever berries on the Pyracantha planted last year

the lovely Aeschynanthus “Hot Flash” indoors on our kitchen window.

This is, however, the summer we were hit by the dreadful fuchsia gall mite

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Which was disaster and led to us destroying our entire collection.

That's it for August me dears

Till next time

ttfn