Finally! I've been working on this a little at a time. It's taken literally months to do this. The lower section is actually a retaining wall of sorts. The panels are pre-made but required cutting down to fit between warped posts and keep the overall height acceptable to the city and everyone concerned. My goal is to finish this side of the yard this year.
The Rose of Sharon bush I got from an online nursery a year ago finally got planted along with some marigolds in the 1/2 barrel. The bush can grow to around 12 feet and has some awsome blossoms when the plant gets bigger.
Still have more panels to install. I've got 8 more to work with on the budjet. That's enough to finish the side you see and a few across the front of the place. Can't do the front though until I finish hauling in material for the new lawn. When the front 3 panels are installed...the origional driveway is formally closed for business. (That's what your seeing in front of the new fence).
Even unfinished, I can sit on the couch now with the door open and not see the headlights of cars driving down the hill. This means also that they can't see in as easily either I suppose. It will be nice to look ot the front door and see a nice garden though when it all comes together. Once I finish this side, I can start planting stuff in my raised flower garden on the side of the neighbors garage.
Here's some of the early pics of how it looked before....
The side of the neigbor's garage looked kinda bad when I actually started. On our side there was an old delapidated lattice with an obnoxious vine growing in it. Eventually as the project progressed, I got the neighbor to put some new siding up. My origional plan changed and I ended up removing the railroad ties I put in that are shown behind the wheel barrow. The raised flower box is lined with concrete and rock with weedcloth on top of that. Then the dirt went in. When designing, I considered my watering could weaken his foundations and sometime he may need to work on that side of the garage. So the fence poles are actually removable. Apparently it was ok to build right up to the property line at one time around here,