Gardening for dummies!!!!

I had no children yesterday! They went with Granny Rosa to the swimming pool and I was left on my own (Ben was at work!).
I decided in the morning that I would make a start on the garden! Now as many of you might know I am not very good at gardening. I seem to be unable to keep anything alive for more than a few weeks. My sweet peas last year were a big joke. They only climbed about a foot before they gave up and decided that they were too tired and under watered to produce any flowers that had a stem longer than a few centimeters!!!! This year I plan to get much better. Mum and I went to the garden center. I bought  some sweet peas called 'Royal Family' and some lily and dahlia bulbs. I also bought what are some of my favorite summer flowers, Ranunculus. I chose them in all different and bright colours so it would brighten up the courtyard and the front garden. Mum said that when she was small and lived at home she grew these as well and were her favorite.
I came home and like a good girl put my Ranunculus bulbs in cold water as instructed and left them for six long hours before I  planted them. I am quite excited at the prospect of making the outside of the house look all pretty and colourful.
I am going to have to enroll the help of the children I think to make sure I water them regularly as I know that I will forget like previous years.

I am beginning to decorate the house for Easter this weekend. I have been up into the back field though and cut a few branches of Blackthorn with blossom on it down to put in my big spotty jug. I going to get Em, Sam and Tamsyn to decorate it with the hanging eggs and put up all the other bits we have. We have an Easter decoration box's now which shows that, as with birthday season, Valentines and Christmas, decorating the house for celebrations is getting to be a nice Lang family custom.

Today we are off to Boconnoc Estate as they have an open day to walk around and see the gardens (how the big boys do it hehe). We are meeting up with Alice, my new boss, and her son Ammi. The sunshine is out again today which is in stark contrast from yesterday when it was bitter cold. I hoping it will be a really nice day. I think if it is not too late when we leave I might go into the fire station and see Uncle Andi and his friends :-)