Gardenscaping – my vision of things to come

Gardening has been a consuming passion for me lately. I can’t wait until the evenings when I can go outside and sculpt my yard to match the vision that I have in my head (and on paper).  Here is my plan: no grass AT ALL in the backyard (grass is highly overated in my opinion), and only garden beds full of edibles, medicinals, and fragrant plants and mulched paths.

Here is the sketch that I drew up over Christmas that is my working blueprint:

My friend Maria de los Angeles (@vicequeenmaria), who volunteers for Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, came by to check what I have done so far and let me share my vision of extreme yard transformation.