Front yard redo in spring

Here is our front yard before the peach tree died and fell down. Everyone loved that tree, but we are so much happier with the new front beds. I have read that beds connected to anything need to be 2/3 the height, so a six foot deep bed in front of a typical rancher house would be appropriate.  We lived for years with the skinny little strip of azalea and fern before taking this big step to redo it all.

Paving still to come.