I thought it was........

Hi everyone, we have just returned from a few days at our caravan, we had some walks, some retail therapy and some relaxing watching some DVDs. All will revealed in my TSFT post!!
I did have strange discovery while away though - just as I thought I was catching up with blogs and comments it seems that a lot of my comments didn't publish
After a wet and windy time yesterday I guess the Spring weather we had last week was a false start!!
The flowers that are blooming now are wonderful though and I must say I was quite excited to see Hawthorn hedges turning green!

I made a collage page starting with a magazine image of seedlings in pots - I don't do much of this myself but I remember pots and pots being prepared by my Mum whose birthday would have been on the first day of Spring - not the weather forecasters Spring date of 1st March, but 21st March.

I looked through my scraps and found the title, also from a magazine, which set me thinking what would I like to find in a secret garden so here you see a bee, a ladybird, a butterfly to represent my favourite insects(I would also like some spiders but none to be found in my scraps!)I added a Hoopoe flying up to the red moon and an Owl sitting in front of it. My SIL and hubby have occasionally have hoopoes in the garden and I love to see them!
There is also a colourful bird to represent any number of colourful birds(and those that are not so colourful), I doodled lots of little flowers around the page too. The leaf over the postage stamp represents shade - I love sunny days but prefer to be in the shade looking out at the garden. Finally I added a 'Fairy' courtesy of a scrap of Jane Davenport washi tape - there would just have to be fairies in my secret garden!

I am later than intended in joining in with Jo's new theme 'Hello Springtime' at Art Journal Journey. 
The new plants in these pots are definitely saying "Hello", as are the many plants appearing earlier than usual this year!

Thanks for looking, Chris