Before Shots

Here is a shot of the backyard when we first looked at the house in January 2008:


Its not very big. There is a little more to it than this, but unfortunately we didn't get any other good shots besides this one. Though it really does show most of it, so obnviously this will be a blog about gardening in a relatively small, semi-urban space. (yes, that is a train track in the background)

Here is one of the front right after we bought the house in the first week of April. It is already pretty cute but as you'll see later there is a little spot of grass below the tree that I am attempting to plant with a silver-blue theme xeriscape: