Elli Gardens - And You Can, Too!

Elli’s strawberries are coming along well!

Elli’s newest additions to her 2010 vegetable, herb and flower garden.

Elli finds orange mini tulips in her garden.

Mysterious purple cat tail flowers in Elli’s garden.

Dew is caught in pretty little leaves in Elli’s garden.

After a closer look, I spied what appear to be tiny grapes! If that’s the case, I hope the kind people next door don’t mind us collecting some fruits of their labours!

These flowers are currently occupying the north side of the back yard garden. This means they’re slated for removal when I get some time to glove up and go shoveling! So let’s enjoy them while they’re here.

Faced with such a massive, mature flower garden as we are in our new place, we appeared to be spoiled for choice. However, after seriously considering sunlight strength and direction and duration, we’ve decided on the north side of the back yard for our vegetable garden.

What better way to celebrate April than with a fresh, pink tulip?

Vancouver had a very mild winter this time around, so we had a few unexpected survivors. My pots of green onions that I hadn’t harvested completely last fall seem to have pulled through and then some!