When my Family moved into our house long ago our yard was nothing more than dirt and mud with a chain link fence. A pool and cement blocks were buried under the entire backyard and front and we had heavy clay. It was so bad our yards were completely dug up to put new soil down and grass.
All those years my parents tried gardening but most shrubs became overgrown and weeds were in every part of the front and back and the grass was brown and hardly grew.
I would say past 10 years I have been working hard to fix up the property and these are a few photos from Summer 2014 showing all the trees/shrubs/grass/ and flowers I had been planting or growing and making the place look alive. I'm the landscaper too. We had heavy rain before taking them so the grass is slightly taller than usual.