Two years of difference at House II

After working in the garden at the second house, I recalled a picture of the backyard that I took a few weeks after we moved into the house.  The jungle past the fence is part of the property but is filled with some sort of American bamboo that is impossible to get rid of.  See pic below. 

The after pics below. 

This pic was taken the year we cleared out the area.





We added a gate (lower right of top pic) that we had taken from another area of the fence.   The gate has made life so much easier to get back there and maintain the area.  What you can't see in the above picture are the dyke, the woods across the dyke from us and the park that is outside our property line (very top of the image). 

Below is an elevated view of the area past the fence.  The sandy spot at the top of the image will eventually be stone steps and a small stone wall with a gate from which we can get to and fro the backyard. Still some work to do back there but it's not a priority for us right now.