my garden

We have been doing a lot of work in the back yard this year. We finally got the fence last fall so it was time to do more than grass back there. We put in some raised vegetable gardens, a few flower beds and some trees. Everything is so small right now. I want a mature garden like...NOW. But patience will pay off I hope. So here are the before and afters. The hopefullys are my photoshopped idea of spreading and growth. And one day living in the country again and having a view that's worth looking at. (No offense neighbors! You know you don't like looking at the back of my house either!) This photoshopped garden is in my top five favorite photoshop projects! Haha- gave me a sense of the "instant gratification" of what the mature garden might look like. If you click on the pictures you can see them larger in a different window. Please ignore that Abe needs to mow our yard for like 2 weeks now! It's a jungle out there...