Secret Tulips

At first glance you might think that all there is in our driveway is a trailer full of rubbish from the basement...

But if you looked a little closer, you'd be wrong... hiding behind the trailer are super secret tulips!

Ginger (Ben's Mum) planted them sneakily one time when we were away, and then luckily she pointed them out to me recently, or I would never have noticed them behind the trailer. I've been checking on them every day to see how they're doing, and now they are blooming and look beautiful!

I think not knowing they were there for so long is the only reason they are still alive... I seem to have something of a 'death thumb' when it comes to gardening, and everything I touch turns to twigs. This year I'm mourning the loss of two hydrangea bushes and I think I'm finally accepting that my rhododendron is not going to make it either. 

When I was younger I had a little African Violet plant. I told my Mum that when I could keep a plant alive was when I'd be ready to have children. The African Violet is still alive, but only because my Mum nursed it back to health and thereafter remembered to water it for me... things don't look so good for Fiona!

So if anyone else would like to stop by and plant something in my garden, please do! But whatever you do, don't tell me, or it's sure to come to a sticky end. Also, keep an eye on my baby... if she looks like she could do with being watered, please remind me!