The disaster that is my yard!

Our yard has fallen to the bottom of our renovations list. I am looking forward to this summer when I can try to spruce it up a little bit. To our credit, we were kinda left with a mess from the previous owners and as we moved in the middle of the summer there wasn't much we could do! 

This is the back of the house and is shaded in the afternoon/evening. This used to be a strawberry garden when the previous owners lived here but last summer it was just a weed pit!

This is along out fence line, if you can see the mulch there. This used to be a L-shaped row of trees against the fence. The trees apparently got worms and the previous owners had to remove them. This is in the sun nearly all day since its in the middle of the yard! I kind of wish we still had the trees =(

This is the other side of the patio in the back yard, these are our rose bushes that actually get pretty and big and they require NO maintenance which is awesome! Chad just trimmed them down at the beginning of winter.

This is our side walk to the front door/front yard. On the left against the garage is a bunch of weeds, nothing was there last summer. I'm sure something used to be there but now it's just ugly! On the corner is a big green/purple bush, straight ahead is three more of those rose bushes and on the right are some green hairy things! Clearly I have a green thumb =) 

This is our front yard. Those bushes are nice, chad just has to trim them occasionally throughout the spring/summer/fall. Don't ask me what any of the other plants are though! I have no idea! 

Hopefully this spring I will have a lot of time to garden! We plan to eventually put in a deck in the back along with the concrete patio that we already have now. But these are plans for the WAY future, many other projects on the list first. I think that just a little gardening will go a long way and make it look a lot better. I did get gardening tools, bag and gloves for Christmas! So I'm ready, just waiting on Spring now =)