Before and after in the back yard.

So that's Gracie hamming it up the day of our home inspection. You can see the backyard a bit behind her. We've added plants between the sidewalk and garage to make a shade garden, and we took out the shrub that's directly behind her and to the right in the first picture. That's where our veggie garden is now. I just transplanted the peony you can see behind Grace in the second picture to the front yard, along with the rest of the peonies, which were clumped in the shade at the south end of our yard. To put it nicely, they were not happy to be transplanted. They practiced passive resistance that would have made Ghandi proud, and they look - mostly dead. But mostly dead is not all dead! I hope they'll come up again in the spring, and that the new, sunny location will be better for them.