Some very nice pics here.

Wish I could add to the collection but as I mentioned before, I'm not a gardener. Wifey (The Missus?) is even less of a gardener than I. She has insect phobias. City girl.

We own a small ranch house located on a half acre lot. Three years ago we had our front and rear decks, plus ALL our shrubs and bushes torn out to start anew. The house then took on the appearance of an Army barracks. Of course that's when Google swooped in to photograph the joint for all eternity. In '08 we had new F and R decks added. That pretty much exhausted the money set aside for home improvement at the time. This year we've been trying to find a landscaper to plant new bushes, flowers and trees but so far it hasn't happened. Last guy took lots of measurements, gave us a ball park estimate then disappeared.