Weeds Sweetgum Sweetgum Maybe honeysuckle Yew Better to put one plant per page because otherwise responders have to keep scrolling up and down between the pictures and the message box - unless they can remember what was in all the pictures when they get down to the message box.

I could be far off, but I'll throw it out there for consideration. Maybe a macadamia? There are some crosses/named varieties that do not have spiney leaf margins. Some are self-sterile, so a single plant may not produce fruit.

i get the same vine growing along the edge of my yard near the ditch. i just cut it back with the mower and spray it with round up. this keeps it in check, but the only way i have ever gotten rid of it was to totally kill off everything in the ditch, but this lead to erosion, so now i spray a low dose to stun and slowly kill back the weeds.

Thanks @yardvark that’s helpful regarding the fence/planter situation. Perhaps I could make the beds/planters in the back of the lot deeper to accommodate maturing plants or trees. I’ll bring up the fence when we get to that phase of construction. It often happens that during these guts the fence we erect becomes the neighbors new fence as well, so there will have to be a fence going all the way to the ground on their side. I wonder instead of raised beds/plants if we could dig down into the yard itself. Although raising them up would help to keep the kids and their yard toys out Grasses are a great idea. I hadn’t considered that I also love bulbs; we currently only have daffodils but boy, it is my favorite day of the year when those peek through. It’s funny to think how simple landscaping seems at first...but when you really consider it, it is incredibly complex and layered. I’m glad I asked the question; I think I need to pump the brakes a bit and figure out some basics first.