Our new backyard, freshly mowed

Here is our newly continued project of landscaping our yard. As of last summer, the grass was down and we had the bigger 3 arbor vitae in the center with the bushes off to the right of the house and the juniper tree and another bush on the left. This spring, we added the other 5 arbor vitae, but they are a different kind than the three that we had. We also put mulch down and continued the bed all the way around. We had to add some rocks into the juniper bed so that the water drained through there. We had a problem last summer with the bed being in the way! The other plans for this summer is to put more flowers/bushes in the bed with the 3 (2 alive and 1 dead) flowering bushes and add some dogwoods between us and the neighbors to our left. (over by the Juniper tree) The landscaper from last year has to come and replace the dead flowering bush (we think it's a serviceberry). I also want to put down patio blocks around our patio to make it a bit bigger so we can get a patio set to put out there. Maybe next year!! Our yard doesn't seem so bad anymore, but as you can see...nobody else in our neighborhood has done much!