Specialty Gardening: Scenes from my Florida Cottage garden..., 5 by psychw2

psychw2 wrote:
Well... we bought a house in October, it had years of neglect outdoors. The previous owner had been a little old lady who's health failed. We had different areas we named according to the dominant issue. We had the wilderness, a raised area with Aspen and flowering plum that was so overgrown we didn't know we had landscaping boulders and a birdhouse on a post that was over 6 feet tall!
The jungle consisted of an area about 20 x 60 with a shed, grass over 18 inches tall that hid such treasures as a whole pickup load of branches, rose prunings and the spikes from Century plants and about a dozen tomato cages. It also had a few flowers planted in it. I've transplanted out several of them and still have LOTS of work to do.
The first picture is after I have pruned and cleared away a lot of the mess in the "wilderness", the 2nd picture, the mess between the shed and neighbors fence & arborvitae the 3rd is the jungle before work. 4th is photo from within my patio looking towards the back yard. 5th a photo of the patio from the front of the house, the pond is further to the right, out of sight in #5.