Comments on: Garden Bloggers’ Design Workshop – Time in a Garden

By: VP

VP — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:15:33 +0000

Hi Nan,

No I never did explain how I put those panoramas together – I’m so glad you asked

Firstly I very carefully took lots of shots of the garden from 1 viewpoint starting at the top left and working down to bottom right of the scene. I made sure all the shots were overlapping. It’s a similar approach to the work that David Hockney’s done in the past with polaroid photos if you’re familiar with that at all? There’s about 5 ‘rows’ of photographs from top to bottom for each scene and 70-100 photos in each panorama I put together.

I then took out a 30 day trial subscription to some photostitching software I wanted to try out. I was also using my Open Garden to try out lots of other things and see just how far I could push a blog!

I simply told the sofware which shots to load up for each scene and it then did all the work!

I saved it in my photo folder and then did a very light cropping to get rid of some black areas around the edges of the stitched photograph.

I’m not familiar with Photoshop et al. (as I like to use ‘undoctored’ photos wherever possible), so there might be a way of doing this with that kind of software too.

Hope that makes sense!

Absolute sense – thanks so much! I’m going to add a note to the wrap-up so others can find your instructions.
-Nan

By: patientgardener

patientgardener — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:25:55 +0000

Like VP did last year I have been taking photos of my back garden at the end of the last 6 months and posting them on my blog. Here is the link for August and the post contains links to the previous months. I think that when I have done 12 months I might have a go at do a slide show on each bit of the garden to show how it changes during the year.
http://patientgardener.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/end-of-month-view-august-2009/

Thanks so much for the link, Helen.
-Nan

By: Heirloom Gardener

Heirloom Gardener — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:38:42 +0000

Nan,

Please ignore my prior link. You can use this updated posts with before and after shots of the Front Garden and the Egg Garden from 2004 and 2009:

http://heirloomgardener.blogspot.com/2009/08/garden-bloggers-design-workshop-time-in.html

-Heirloom Gardener

Super idea to gather the links into one post for easy access, HG; thanks!
-Nan

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:24:38 +0000

I’m only just beginning, so have mostly “before” pictures, but I’ve written about my “later” gardening style with a few photos of a garden in progress.

http://evolutionofagardener.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/gardening-style/

Thanks for the inspiration.
Kate

We’re delighted to have you join us, Kate! This post will be a valuable part of your garden’s history as you evolve as a gardener. You can never have too many “before” pictures.
-Nan

By: David

David — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:11:47 +0000

If you don’t mind another post…
Here is a link to my blog with the story of a neighborhood project- a tiny public native plant garden that is a project of mine and my wife.
http://montanawildlifegardener.blogspot.com/2009/08/8th-street-pocket-park.html
We planted this park in July of 2008 and you can see the changes in just one year.
Again, I wish I had taken more before pictures. Someday I will learn.
Thanks again for the opportunity to share.
David

Always great to get a link from you, David. It’s a terrific story in its own right and a great addition to this theme too.
-Nan

By: Heirloom Gardener

Heirloom Gardener — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:33:55 +0000

Nan,

You’ve already seen this post about my four-year makeover of the Front Garden, but it’s the best “time series” I’ve got at the moment. If I have time before the deadline, I’ll try to update it or come up with something new:

http://heirloomgardener.blogspot.com/2008/04/garden-bloggers-design-workshop-front.html

-Heirloom Gardener

Thanks for the link, HG!
-Nan

By: Laura Livengood Schaub

Laura Livengood Schaub — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:04:49 +0000

Hi Nan,
Seeing into the future, the trickiest thing for a new designer (and potentially most embarrassing down the road!) I recently wrote a blog post about my audacity in planting giant (clumping, mind you) timber bamboo in my tiny backyard; file under ‘chances a designer will take for themselves only!’
http://interleafings.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-bamboo-is-scaring-me.html

I think the results are worth every minute you’ll put into the editing, Laura. What a magical space you’ve created!
-Nan

By: Pam

Pam — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:37:11 +0000

Hi Nan,
My tastes have definitely changed over the years. The faster time goes, the more I value slow-growing plants. Maybe, by the time I’m too old to garden, all my slow-growing dwarfs will have knit together to make a maintenance-free garden … On second thought that’s not too likely. That I’ll be too old to garden someday, that is. Here’s my post:
http://www.helpinggardenersgrow.com/2009/08/savoring-dwarf-evergreens.html

Talk about gardening for the long term, Pam! I’m sure you’ll be amply rewarded for your patience.
-Nan

By: Craig @ Ellis Hollow

Craig @ Ellis Hollow — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:49:15 +0000

Hi Nan: Tried something a little different this month. Video of a couple of scenes through the season so far. Can’t wait to incorporate the fall scenery and some snow scenes into them:
http://www.remarc.com/craig/?p=733

Wow, Craig – wicked cool! You’ll have to leave us a note when you update the videos. Thanks for linking to the directions, too!
-Nan

By: Michelle D.

Michelle D. — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:40:58 +0000

Hello GGW and friends,
Today I visited a garden that went through a radical transformation 7 years ago.
I posted the before photographs along with some soon after construction photos and photos showing the landscape 7 years later.
Enjoy.

http://deviantdeziner.blogspot.com/2009/08/before-and-after-seven-years-later.html

In a word, Michelle: WOW! Thanks so much for sharing this link to your project. I can’t wait to see the before and after of the backyard project.
-Nan