WOWSER I'm SO AWED by your pics Gordon I forgot what the team question was
edification: o ya about lawns. We started with all lawn, weeds and poor unluved trees. My goal is to be all garden with paths and I'm over half done.
Some of the paths in the back are grass for my dahliafeets and cuz it's my fav thing to lie on and nothing else smells like it when its cut. We still have a lawn in the front but we don't water it. It gets its bit of a drink when I water the trees and beds. We never have to cut it cuz it doesn't get enough water so stays semi-dormant. There will be no grass in the front when I'm finished.