Inspired by a letter from Amy Ellett to her friend Doreen Morris of East Grinstead, Sussex, England

"July 10, 1956. My dear Doreen,
…How I did laugh to think of you two enthusiastic women, each with an umbrella, admiring your garden! Mine is a wilderness, has some lovely blossoms of columbine, such delicate colours and such artistic combination of colours, they thrill me to see them…Alice has a rose tree against the house which is of a soft grey stucco & this tree has one branch well sheltered against it with lovely pink flowers on it. Pink, green & grey do well together.
My garden is near a hay-meadow & many grass seeds find a resting-place in it. I don’t mind as I think they are very graceful; brome, Timothy, June-grass, crested-wheat & so on...I admire what I can and overlook the rest. "

Amy Ellett came from London, England to a rural area south of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ca 1895 with her husband Charlie.
Provincial Archives of Alberta #PR1995.0394