Why did you make the garden anti-human?

 I came from a neighborhood where, despite gentrification, I kept the bars on the windows. Some of my newer neighbors were more trusting and took off the unsightly bars. I'd been there too long and saw too much to even think about it. Also I was a single woman, sometimes living alone (roommates come and go), so hard pass. Also the bars were cheaper to maintain than an alarm system.

So I get why you planted thorny plants and bushes and the tall decorative grasses. You probably wanted privacy and protection. But as I worked in it, it just seemed anti-human or anti-mammal. I would accidentally hit or touch the sharp thorns from time to time and it got old real fast. It was also worrying because we have a young child and he cries a lot and loudly when he gets hurt. I had to get rid of the thorny thistles and plants for his sake.

I got rid of the high grasses. You won't see them pictured.

Why?

'Cause they gone.

I got rid of the low pointy plant.

I got rid of the pointy plant holding up the unidentified vines.

I cut back the pointy plant near the widow.

In the long run, I'm going to get rid of the big bushes. I want to expand the kitchen and those bushes are in the way.

Your pond

 

I think this will be going to Community Forklift.

You had a pond in the backyard. There were no fish in it. It was just a garden feature, but we had no interest in it. Well I had no interest in maintaining it. As far as I was concerned it was a breeding ground for mosquitos.

My husband was supposed to fill it or keep it drained. But the rains would fill it back up and make it a mosquito nursery. Eventually he and some teen aged helpers dug it out. And then there was the hole to fill up. It got filled with leaves and other fall debris. When the new drainage system was put in, workers dumped clay dirt on top.

We still have a lot of brick and stone and other random things that surrounded the pond. Those are also awaiting to go to Community Forklift.

I am hoping to replace the garden with edibles with no garden features like a pond.