Category: Cheering up Mondays

The first Cheering Up Mondays of the new month and one of my favourites. This is a particularly good shrub . . .

We’ve had the odd bit of sun recently – I’d almost forgotten what it looked like – and I spotted . . .

This week’s cheerful flower had to be the first of these in bloom. It’s about three weeks earlier than usual . . .

I always think of these as a real sign of spring though they’ve actually been flowering for weeks. Nothing fancy . . .

The first of the iris to flower in my garden for this week’s cheerful flower. I grow quite a few . . .

I’ve been pruning my roses so a rose seemed the perfect choice for this week’s cheerful flower. This isn’t from . . .