Oh... the light

Bleeding Heart

One of the benefits of our overcast weather is the magical light that is the perfect foil for taking pictures in our gorgeous garden. The details and colours of the foliage are crystal clear with the grey skies overhead.  I took the opportunity this afternoon to have a mooch around the garden and captured the following images. Remember remember the sun will return!

uh, gorgeous lipstick tulip

Chive Blossoms ready to burst

Fern unfurling

Solomon's Seal 

Neighbourhood Small Grants - we got one!

A few of us got together and secured a Neighbourhood Small Grant from the Vancouver Foundation and the City of Vancouver that will benefit the Kits garden members and people from the community who wish to participate.  The grant money is to be used for a Seed Saving Workshop that will take place sometime in September.

Le Cheque. 

For those of you interested in saving seeds the Workshop will be most interesting. It would be nice not to have to always buy seeds... and we are also hoping that we could create Kits Garden Seed packets to fundraise for the garden. Details will be communicated to the membership when everything is arranged. In the meantime enjoy this gorgeous weather we are having and plant some seeds!

Birds

Birds. This is the time of year when the garden is filled with the sound of birds. The Northern Flickers have returned and are inspecting our Hobbit Tree for their summer condo. Couldn't catch a good shot of them tonight but managed to capture this lovely little fat breasted robin who found a delicious juicy worm to feast on.

robin resting with his prey... on top of the new bench

Seconds later he took flight - but not before I managed to snag this next shot... he seemed transformed into something quite mythical.

The garden is rapidly transforming as well... this is the time of year when everyone is anxiously looking for signs of growth from the early spring seeds that have been planted (peas, arugula, lettuces, spinach, etc) 

Arugula popping up...upper left is a coffee stir stick - for scale

but the most noticeable - daily - is with the overnight growth of all our lovely perennials. Lovely.

Hobbit tree detail

Forget Me Not

Enjoy... soon they will be gone!