There is a lot going on in that yard that I wouldn't be a fan of. I grew up my the parents having 2 acres of grass so I'm use to having more grass than landscaping. I'm not really enlarging the current beds or anything like that. Just adding two tiered section and doing the wall around the tree. Clean and simple looks is the goal.
Here is where I'm at after working on it a little this weekend. I wanted to try and keep track of my hours worked but that's proving to be difficult with all the other projects going on around the house. In the morning the area is in the shade and around noon it's turn into pretty rough work. Throughout this week I hope to have the stone base and sand in and ready for block.
