Mine is a Wilderness — Wyman, Marlena

Letter from Amy Ellet to her friend Doreen Morris of East Grindstead, Sussex, Englland

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 Ellet came from London, England to a rural area south of Edmonton AB ca 1895 with her husband Charlie.