The 'Delargo Towers' Garden - October

Here we are again me dears at the end of October. 

Summer is over but we still have plenty of flower and colour.

The salvias have been a real joy this year check last months post for the names

They have mixed with our old favourites so well and have made a rather wonderful late Summer / Autumn border.

mixed with nicotiana mutabilis and verbena bonariensis the effect the effect is both effortless and sublime.

They are all plants we would never want to be without in any garden .

We also love our new bed for hot colours but it does need a bit of a rethink. 

We have already bought seeds to give it a bit of a vamp up next year.

The beautiful but offending pink penstemons  have now been moved.

We both have been totally amazed both by the beauty and flower power of Mina lobata - Spanish Flag

All of that growth and flower from seed in one season !

We shall definitely be sowing again next Spring

Most of the fuchsias have done us proud 

Well worth their weight in flowers this time of year.

as indeed are all the three species of  nicotiana that we grow. 

All three are in flower this month

This is nicotiana roulette

Apart from one vine growing through the apple trees most of the cobaea scandens have been a little slow but they are all kicking in now.

The view from our bedroom window.

This is the third nicotiana still in flower after flowering all Summer

- sylvestris

In the plastic greenhouse.

At the moment we have a few things sheltering from what may come. 

There are also a few hardy perennial seedlings 

but you will have to wait till the next post to find out about them

Doncaster Donny is doing his best to get the plants ready for Winter -

- and it is a time for us to think about what went well or ill this year and start to plan for next. 

The foxgloves wallflowers and Brompton stocks we sowed late Summer are now large plants and ready to put into flowering position 

Till next month then me lovelies

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The 'Delargo Towers' Garden - September

Here we are my lovelies back up to date just in time to say goodbye to September and with it the Summer.

I have rather neglected taking photos of the front of 'Delargo Towers' lately. This is particularly remiss of me as it is rather cram packed with plants this year.

Asarina scandens

as indeed is the main border.

Cleome and Nicotiana mutabilis are still flowering - but this is the month for the Salvias to take centre stage. 
That is apart from Salvia transylvanica which we grew from seed this year. It is alive and in the border but not doing much, perhaps next year.

Salvia 'Amistad'

Salvia uliginosa

Salvia guaranitica “Blue Enigma”

Salvia farinacea “Sally fun”

Salvia patens “Patio Deep Blue”

Ipomoea 'Heavenly Blue'

Monarda hybrida, 'Bergamo'

Our new 'hot border' will need a bit of a rethink for next year.

It has worked but will need a boost of new plants next year.

The 'Spanish Flag' - Ipomoea (Mina) lobata is just stunning and flowering non stop.

Although the pots have not had all the attention they deserved this summer - I am sure they would have liked a bit more regular watering and feeding (mildew!) - but hey there is only so much you can do. Even so they are still looking fab.

Dahlia 'Bishops Children' -

Dahlia 'Early Bird'

more 'Bishops Children'

R.A.F.

 Margaret

 Southgate

Vodoo

With 30 types of Fuchsias there is no space to feature them here. 
Now that I have caught up with myself on the The 'Delargo Towers' Garden posts I shall give them their own page next time.

We can just about get in and out of the back door.

So much nicer than concrete.

Nicotiana sylvestris has done very well this year both in pots and in the front. It has been in flower for ages.

Mirabilis jalapa, the 'Marvel of Peru'

Another one of my all time favourite plants Zaluzianskya ovata -  'Night Scented Phlox' .

Cobaea scandens 'Purple'

Calibrachoea ('Million Bells')

Well there we are. 

I am so pleased, nay relieved, to be back up to date.

Till next time then me dears, when we will see what October has in store for us.

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