Our Semi-finished Backyard

So here is our semi-finished back yard. We love it so far. It has been super duper hot here...in the triple digits for the last two weeks! We are talking like 105 plus. Yowzers! We have a peach tree in the back right of the play set and the little peaches are ripe! Yum! I had to hang CDs in the tree to keep the birds off, but I have eaten two tiny peaches...next year they will be bigger, the poor tree has only been in the ground 2 months. We also have an orange tree that we salvaged and we added a lime tree. The gigantic honeysuckle we saved and we are so sad b/c last week our huge Chinese elm behind the splash bad turned on us in like 2 days it went from a beautiful dark green to yellow. Now it is completely brown and is going to loose all of its leaves. The arborist we had come out said that its roots were likely damaged when we put the splash pad in. He said that it is no longer getting water from the grass where the majority of its roots were (now they are covered in concrete) and that the tree is just in shock, so we are deep watering every 10 days in hopes to save it. Cross your fingers. Our yard just seems gigantic and we love it. We have a huge patio, and my next project is to stain the concrete. When we can save up enough money we are going to put a fence in between the rock garden (the future home of a pool...sigh we miss our pool) and the rest of the yard. Anyway, home improvement...what a headache...it never ends...but sometimes it's fun! 

The "rock garden" beautiful isn't it? We are dreaming of a pool one day.