52 weeks of Happy: I think spring has sprung at last

I've completely lost track of where I am in 52 weeks of Happy, so I'm just going to share some things that have made me happy this morning!

I was out in the garden keeping Annie company while she saw to her 'business' and thinking how nice it will be when I can take her out for walks - only a few more days now - and she can trample down the flowers and foliage in the fields and hedgerows instead of in my garden - or maybe as well as!

I noticed that quite a lot of the flowers we planted last year are coming up again

We obviously got the fencing up just in time to save them!

My geum is looking lovely

The lupins look like they'll have LOADS of flowers this year - so long as I don't let the greenfly get them!

My yellow aquilegia is looking gorgeous

These photos just don't do it justice!

My white aquilegia doesn't have quite such dramatic flowers as the yellow one, but hopefully will still be lovely. It didn't really flower much last year! And Annie tore out half of it a couple of weeks ago so it's recovering nicely!

My fuschias are starting to grow. 

I love these particular fuschias; they were growing in the garden of a house we bought on the South coast in 1988. We took cuttings when we moved from there in 1994, and ended up with a garden full of them for the 17 years that we lived in Milton Keynes. Of course we took more cuttings when we moved to Northamptonshire 18 months ago, so our fuschias are well travelled and quite old!

Hollyhocks and sea hollies - a must for a cottage garden!

Not sure what this is, we put it in last year, very pretty!

The pink poppies, which Poppy Cottage was named after, as there was nothing but weeds and poppies growing in the garden when we moved in! 

The lavender that Miss M bought me for my birthday last year is surviving OUTSIDE of the fenced in flower bed - Annie clearly doesn't like lavender, must buy more!

This was pretty last year, with yellow flowers, again I can't remember what it is called!

A pink phlox....

Something tall - I only know this because the supporting stake is still there from last year!

Oh there are going to be some lovely surprises when all these plants flower and we remember what they are!

This is an arabis which we 'planted' a couple of weeks ago in the wall where Annie can't reach it!

And amazingly the honeysuckle is surviving despite Annie's intervention!

And the herbs - she obviously doesn't like them either!

I'm really getting quite excited, hopefully my cottage garden will look lovely again, despite the need to fence parts off!

xxx