What would Jane Austen Grow?

My chocolate vine is blooming and it really does smell like chocolate.  I selected it to have a mostly evergreen vine to screen out the neighbors.  I have always liked the look of Akebia quinnata (aka chocolate vine), so I selected a variegated form.  I still really like it but it does have a few flaws.  It is now more solid green than variegated and the vines grow on the ground along the fence and into the neighbor’s yard.  It got a bit of winter black spot, but the new growth will be good.  Right now it is covered in these odd little flowers that have a wonderful aroma.  I made my husband take a walk through the yard to see if anything needed water.  Hard to believe with all the rain we’ve had, but there were a number of plants in containers that needed a drink.  That walk about gave me the opportunity to see what’s happened in my garden in the last week.  So many more things are blooming.  I have a Crown Imperial (Fritillaria) blooming in my pot of primroses.  It was not there at all the last time I looked.  How did it grow 9 inches in a week?  I have some nice species tulips blooming that I only vaguely remember planting.  The snails have gotten to them like they did to the earlier ones.  My lettuce is getting to the harvest stage and my Anemone nemerosa has spread.  I brought a few more plants home tonight.  I’m not sure when I will be planting them.  Perhaps an evening soon.  I don’t have time to take a day off in the near future, so it will have to be an evening or two or three.  I’m excited to add a Little Lime Hydrangea and a Black Stockings Meadow Rue to my plantings.  Now I just have to figure out a tall, narrow conifer for near the front door, a water bowl out front for the dogs, and a 4-5 foot tall showy, deciduous shrub.