Flower girls

This is becoming a bit of tradition in our family, buying flowers for Chinese New Year. We didn't use to do this because there wasn't space at our old place for plants. But now we have a patio and there is also the common area outside which we conveniently claim as our own.

We've been doing this since last year, visiting a nursery to pick out a nice auspicious-looking plant of substantial size and having the girls pick out their own little plants to care for (easier to care for than a pet dog or hamster and no guilt if the plant dies on you!).

We picked out our plants a little early this year. Look at the girls' choices for the Year of the Ox: