Wide Angle View of Back Yard in Early May
May 5th, 2008 
by Susan Harris
Though my deep lot is awfully narrow it still takes two shots with my Canon PowerShot to capture the whole thing, left to right. So when professional garden photographer Rob Cardillo was visiting last week to shoot my garden I pumped him for information about cheap wide angle cameras and - because he’s one of the world’s nicest, most generous people - he offered his camera for me to grab a few quickies, which he promised to send to me. Done!
So what you see is my back garden at its most colorful, and also the progress being made by various groundcovers in replacing the former lawn. It’s mostly a creeping sedum that pops up in this neighborhood as a weed and spreads like crazy. Those full, billowy areas look maaavalous in the detail below, doncha think? Planted just last fall, that area filled in SO fast, I’m psyched that the bare soil around the more recent plantings will be gone soon. Better be.
The sedums are accompanied by some mazus and an assortment of thymes, which I’m trying out on this mostly sunny hillside. The mission of any plant on this site is to prevent erosion and eventually get thick enough to prevent weeds. More will be revealed later this season.
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May 5th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Your garden looks stunning!
May 5th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I love the lime green of the plants in the pictures - it livens up the space so nicely.
May 5th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Beautiful Susan and soothing! I just planted that same groundcover sedum in the front yard to replace grasses.
Gail
May 6th, 2008 at 6:21 am
What a nice fellow letting you actually use his camera. The shot of your back garden is great with all blooming. I would love to be able to take a picture from above of our garden. An intersting perspective.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Ooooh, gorgeous. I think I’d spend a lot of time in that chair, drinking coffee every morning.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
It’s beautiful. I love the spring textures and colors.
May 10th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Has anyone been tracking the effects of global waring on their garden? I have seen less birds visiting, more of the worng sorts of insects - notably less bees. As well as this a lot more wind and considerably less rain.
May 11th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
That sedum is a great foil for all the other action in the garden. Can’t believe it’s a weed, but one man’s weed is…
I can’t get enough of the yellow-green as a building block for just about any garden. Thanks
May 13th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Simply stunning…
May 13th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Your garden looks great!
May 21st, 2008 at 7:33 am
Stunning, Susan! How fortunate you are to have such beautiful trees. I wouldn’t mind sitting in that chair and having a cup of tea.
Robin at Bumblebee