It took four years and lots of other more urgent home and house projects, but we finally made a real effort to clean up the yard and various sections of our "small private park" ;-)

I pruned the trees (again) and cut some back and we said goodbye to the occasional dead Rhododendrons and some vague weeds that had grown to brush size (oopsie). Our red-rock paths - overgrown in the previous two months with some weird grass-like weed that came out of nowhere - were cleaned up and replenished with new rock.

We attacked our driveway, had it leveled and refreshed with more clean blue-grey rock, and we weeded and mulched all flower beds, both in our back yard, as well as along the front side of the house, after Nishat and Isabella planted close to 300 new flower bulbs: scilla, a dozen hyacinths, some more daffodils and lots of tulips.

Here's some pictures of the flickr set: