Photobucket is EVIL

Photobucket is EVIL

 

Most of the photos on my blog were hosted through Photobucket, I had been using them to host my photos since 2011

As of July 5, 2017 they changed their terms of service without any warning and destroyed my and thousands of other peoples blogs. I have removed every photo from photobucket and hope every one else does as well

It was such a blow that I gave up on my blog but I have decided to bite the bullet and start again. 

It will take a while to fix it but I will not allow the evil Rupert Murdoch and his cronies win

TTFN

The 'Delargo Towers' Garden - November

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

Wish me luck and here we go with
November 2017

 Summer slips away but the garden has colour

Salvia coccinea

Salvia 'Amistad' with Pyracantha

 

Salvia coccinea 

Pelargonium “Calliope” Dark Red

Penstemon

Salvia 'Hot Lips'

 How could you have a garden in November without salvias?

 They shine when all else fails

except 

Fuchsias

and  Coboea scandens

  Well there tiz me dears

till next time,

ttfn

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