New front yard solution: raspberry arc, with a hay bale windbreak. Never mowed, never will.

He just figured out he can climb this Japanese red plum tree.


Note impossible to distinguish stalks of wild rose, curly willow, a poplar and hedging. And we're kittysitting. To the right mostly out of sight is a row that has had every single plant eaten by gophers. Garlic, fava beans, sunflowers. Potatoes are the latest offering.