Joint Effort!

Not much to look at yet, as it still needs finishing off, but this is the result of hours of work on the part of myself, D and Daniel.
I refuse to spend money and time on boring grass, so the grass median in front of our house has always looked very scrubby. So, inspired by a couple of other houses in the neighborhood, I decided to cultivate beautiful and productive plants instead of grass. As Daniel said, it's a lot of work to get the plants in the ground but after that you just sit back and enjoy it! We planted Spanish Lavender and Mexican Marigold. I also left room for some Rosemary as that seems to do so well here.
Yes, that is newspaper you can see peeping out - I need more mulch to cover it! It's to suppress the weeds.