We (that is the royal we–it really means Lorena) decided we are not going to try to do too much with our yard because we (in this case it really is both of us) love the way it looks in a more natural state. Lorena is going to work on the front yard, the side yard, and two areas by the entry, but leave everything else alone. It will still be quite a lot of work and we will still have someone come in and mow, but 2-1/4 acres are too much to landscape both in terms of money and time. We do get lots of natural wildflowers that come and go and we will need to put down some bark dust, but that is not really too bad of a challenge.