Never Ending Landscaping

One day, we will be all finished with our landscaping improvements.  For now we will keep progressing forward, even if it we are as slow as dirt : )  Here are some of the latest pics in progress...

Here is the back before anything added from when we purchased...

So, 10 Arborviates, 4 Magnolias, 5 Bamboo, 6 leylands, 1 Laurel, 2 retaining walls later and this is where we are at:

Facing North West...

Facing North...

Facing South.  At the very end is a monstrous tree/shrub mixed with thorny ivy that we are removing so that we can extend the two retaining walls around the corner to the left (east).  The top wall will extend our flat space by probably 6 ft.  The lower wall that will extend around to the left will eventually be for planting a vegetable garden on top off.  This area gets loads of sun.

Day 1 of removal....

After day 2 and 3 a couple weekends later....

And now to the front before anything has been done.  We plan to put in three walls here. 

After day 1.  This is the beginning of the first wall.  We will end up decreasing the height of the wall here, it is too tall as it is now.  The plan is to put in two more above it evenly spaced out.  From there we can plant like crazy.

Sometimes it feels as if we are making little progress, but then when we review the before and after, we really can see how far we have come along : )