Point of view - May edition

It's that time of month again - the time when I show you the view from a particular perspective in my garden. It happens to begin at a point about fifteen feet in front of my garden shed. I've been showing you this view each month, beginning in January, the idea being to show how the garden evolves over a year's time. To see the views from previous months, click on the name of the month you want to see.

January

February

March

April

Now, without further ado, here is the garden in May.

This is the long view, greener and lusher as you can see, and the old crape myrtle tree on the left is completely leafed out now and casts shade over the area. Both garden cats, Bubba in front and Charlie behind, managed to get into this shot.

Walking a bit closer, again, if you compare this to any of the previous months, you see much more vegetative growth.

 The big mounding shrub on the left with the tiny yellow blooms is Copper Canyon daisy. Charlie managed to get into the picture again, the camera hog!

 Closer still to the patio, you can tell that the new plants in the beds around the patio are growing and filling in.

Turning to the right and pointing the camera toward the house which is now almost obscured by vegetation, you can see one or two of the white blossoms on the old magnolia tree. The shrubbery at right is Anisacanthus wrightii, flame acanthus, which lives along my vegetable garden fence. It will soon be full of the orange tubular blossoms that hummingbirds and butterflies love so much.

That's what it looks like in May. I wonder what June will bring.