BACK YARD OVERHAUL

The time has finally come to rip out the old back yard and make it our Oasis in the desert.  We have a lot of ideas for what we want our backyard to look like.  So we had multiple landscapers give us a bid to do half of our backyard.....$12-20,000 later we decided we were gonna have to do it ourselves (meaning mostly my hubby, while I provide the vision and inspiration lol!).

                   So, here is a preview of what we had to deal with.... the BEFORE
               This included a whole lot of BAMBOO, Sticker weeds, and Bermuda grass
                                                                           

                                                                          BEFORE

Yep, it's the great wall of Bamboo!

Without bamboo

The pond feature

Water feature to pond

As you can see, there wasn't much to keep in the backyard.  

So we had everything ripped out to start over.

We started by adding a patio

best picture of patio I could find

fire pit

steps from patio to fire pit

I will have to take some more pictures of what the yard looks like now.  

It is really hot now, so a lot of the plants don't look very great.  

We have added a gazebo to add some shade to our backyard.  

That has been a great investment to have somewhere to sit outside in the summer.