Yay it's Springtime and seed planting season again, a whole summer of pretty cut flowers is just around the corner. I've grown a few types of flowers from seed over the past few years {sweet peas and cosmos mainly} but this year I've decided to go even further and make a small cutting flower patch on the allotment. It's amazing just how many flowers you'll get even from just a couple of packets of seeds and little bit of time invested now. Last year, after shoving some sweet pea seeds into some soil at this time I had huge bunches of flowers, every other day for over eight weeks! You have to keep cutting them, filling your kitchen with prettiness and their amazing scent. When I wrote our garden post last year a few of you asked for a guide of when to plant things. So this is the time to plant most seeds, go buy some compost, have a read of this mini guide and get planting!

Happy Friday! This has really felt like the first week of Spring, good timing after getting back from California last week. It's so lovely to not have to think about a coat or a thick scarf before you go out the door. I've loved having the doors wide open in the day and spending some time in the garden. We've started our first lot of seeds off too, that's when you know that Spring has really sprung. I'll do a blog post about seeds next week, I'm planning more of a cutting garden this year at the allotment. How was your week? I've mainly been playing catch up whilst nipping out for nice walks, catching up with friends and eating lunch in the garden. Also can you sense a theme with these weeks photos? - nearly all of them involve flowers this week! 

Yum, it's rhubarb season! One of my favourites. I love the it's pinky green hue and how delicious it is with vanilla. We're hoping that we'll have a big supply from our allotment this year but Ben's mum always has an abundance to give away with leaves bigger than our heads. What are your best ways to use it? Here are a few of mine..

I'm back! Hope you had a good weekend? Sorry there was no Friday post last week as we were flying home. Regular posting will resume as soon as I've caught up with everything. Anyway, for today a photography post! 

As I've mentioned, I'm officially in love with my new camera {this one} and a few of you have asked if I'd recommend it. But I also wanted to update the photos of our kitchen on here. When I put up our kitchen makeover post it was Halloween so the house was filled with pumpkins and it looked really autumnal, instead these photos are filled with spring... 

Hello March and the official start of Spring, I really love this time of year with the evenings getting lighter, daffodils, tulips and magnolia blossom all in bloom, little lambs jumping around and warmer weather. It's also my Birthday month which is always rather lovely. We're currently in California, get back later this week so a little hiatus in activity on here for a few days I'm afraid. Back to normal posting next week though. And in the meantime, some of my favourite Spring photos from the past couple of years if you'd like to see...