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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Your garden looks stunning!
I love the lime green of the plants in the pictures – it livens up the space so nicely.
Beautiful Susan and soothing! I just planted that same groundcover sedum in the front yard to replace grasses.
Gail
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.
Ooooh, gorgeous. I think I’d spend a lot of time in that chair, drinking coffee every morning.
It’s beautiful. I love the spring textures and colors.
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.
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
Simply stunning…
Your garden looks great!
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
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