I'm quite pleased with how the yard turned out this year.

The Japanese Maple seems to be turning less red.

The snowballs on the Chinese Snowball looks great.

Chinese Snowball.

Chinese Snowball.

It looks like that's it for the Reeves Spireas this year.

The shadow of the Sweet Gum tree makes for a good picture.

I got some white blooms this year.

Maybe the Indian hawthorn will recover ? I've been saying that for years with limited results.

The Otto Luyken Cherry Laurel seems to be happy in its new home.

The new growth on the relocated dogwood tree seems to be expanding.

Maybe it will recover. Time will tell.

Since I removed the Yellow Flag iris path near the Happy Returns Daylilies, maybe they will get more sunlight and flower a bit more. I have to wonder if the irises grew too tall too close to the lilies and blocked the sun. Not sure, though.

The small relocated Japanese Maple tree is still alive, which is good.

Well this is interesting !

My new neighbor is replacing his driveway and front walk.

I heard this project before I saw it taking place. The sounds of "construction" got my attention at 8 AM earlier this week, and this is why. The existing driveway was showing some cracks, but didn't look too bad to me.

But I guess he decided he wanted it replaced.

Hopefully, I'll see a lot of yellow flowers in this area soon.

The dogwood trees still look great.

The dogwood trees look good.

The Cherokee Princess dogwood has bloomed more this year than ever before.

The pink dogwood continues to do its thing each spring without any input from me.

I tried to take a few pics to stitch together to make a panorama of the front yard. This is picture 1 of 3.

Picture 2 of 3.

Picture 3 of 3.

Three-picture panorama of the front yard.

Picture 1 of 2 for another panorama.

Picture 2 of 2.

A two-picture panorama of the front yard.

I hope the Bridal Wreath spirea is ok. For whatever reason, it didn't bloom much this year and doesn't look too healthy at the moment.

I moved a good chunk of the Yellow Flag irises that previously meandered through the entire design to this side of the yard.

There are no small plants on this side of the yard. So when the irises grow tall, they won't smother anything else.

Another view of the dogwood trees.

I ran the mower over half of the backyard today.

This side of the yard is full of English Ivy. I mow to keep it in check. Otherwise, it will take over.

I love the large oak tree in my backyard !

I also mowed by the fence like I always do each year.

This is a good way to keep the English Ivy in check.

I mowed this half of the backyard.

This half of the yard looks good.