After almost choking on my water bill last summer (+ $400.00 Month), I decided to do something about it. My front yard has two rather large lawns so I decided to eliminate one of them in favor of some sort of arid type landscaping. I figured I'd save at least 30% on the water bill by replacing the lawn with something that needs little or no water.
This is a shot of the lawn about two weeks after I started to kill it and cut down two trees. The existing curbing had a radius in the corner, so I needed to straighten it out for fencing.
Then I had to remove the lawn by rototilling it out. When that was done I built a bridge over the curb for the Bobcat to get in.
Got the Bobcat and started to remove many yards of dirt.
And started to put back many yards of new dirt, in hopes of making a crude looking sort of mound.
I then just sort of raked and shaped...
After that I built a raised block planter against the wall so I can eventually plant Oleanders to hide it.
And laid in some curbing to separate the rock, hedge and mound area.
The next step was to erect a nice Idaho ceder split rail fence around the perimeter.
That's all I have for now but I hope I'll have it all completed in about another month.