D O L O R E S
D E L A R G O
T O W E R S
(AKA Jon & Madam A)
After a bit of a slow start, it was a magnificent Spring and summer this year in London, and the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers have really benefitted for all the extra sunshine - not least when I added a new tiered display stand to the border, and then two of the hideous bastard weed trees in neighbouring gardens were felled!
Without further ado, highlights from the seasonal display, starting with the earliest blooms...
Once the weather had warmed up...
top, l-r: Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove), Rosa 'Gertrude Jeckyll', Scilla peruviana (Portuguese Squill)
bottom, l-r: Salvia 'Amistad', Cymbidium orchid, Rosa 'Veilchenblau'
High summer...
top, l-r: Hemerocallis 'Crimson Pirate', Lilium 'Eastern Moon', Lilium speciosum var. rubrum
bottom, l-r: Begonia 'Giant Pendula Scarlet', Hydrangea macrophylla 'Black Stem Blue', Phlox paniculata 'Blue Paradise'
And finally, into autumn...
top, l-r: Fuchsia 'Deep Purple', Begonia boliviensis 'Bellavista', Fuchsia 'Rose of Castile'
bottom, l-r: Salvia involucrata, Salvia 'Love and Wishes', Impatiens hawkeri (New Guinea hybrid) and Scaevula aemula (Fairy fan-flower) window box
With the display still going strong (as it will be till the first frosts), as ever we've just started on the planning and prep for next year, with the bulbs and wallflowers going in as we speak.
Cheers to 2025 - and roll on Spring!
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I just hope the post formatting works as intended* - I won't see this post until I get home after work tonight.
* Organised, practical, and helpful as always, along with his photos and captions, Jon also included a suggestion for how to display them:
There are a lot of photos, sorry - I figured a succession of "grid" montages might work (rows of three). Each one except the "leader" is in 3:4 scale, to make things easier for scaling-down, but if you want to muck around with them, feel free!
I had no idea how to manage such technical jiggery-pokery, and Witchface is worse than useless at this type of thing. After flailing wildly in Blogger's 'Insert image' thingy hoping for some setting that I'd somehow missed until now, I remembered that Jon sometimes posts separate images right next to each other (in defiance of Blogger's "I will only let you stack images vertically" stance).
I scrolled through his blog until I found this post (with Yuri Moreno and Juanita Euka smushed together so tightly a credit card couldn't pass between them), copied the pictures and pasted them into a draft blog post, then looked at the HTML code to see if I could replicate it. After some wailing and hand-wringing, I eventually worked it out (at least I hope I did) resulting in this very post!
I notice your method has left a sizeable gap, unlike Jon's, surprisingly...
Shut up.
Daaahling! Thank you - this is indeed the encapsulation of a year in "the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers"! Jx
ReplyDeletePS Best not discuss whether your "sizeable gap" is bigger than mine, dear...😜