Xeriscaping

Hold the sod/grass seed, Jessica and Steve!!!! The front yard sounds like a good candidate for xeriscaping.
We'll get some stepping stones, perennials (with some annuals for all-summer colour), maybe a garden bench and some little ceramic animals....none of those cement frogs and such.....and we'll turn the scruffed up part of the front yard into a mass of flowers. We'll bring some of the perennials we have here...irises and daisies (not Shastas which will invade the yard and lawn and neighbour's lawn on the other side of the hedge when nobody is looking) and we'll see what we can do.
Tesarowskis, how does that sound? A lot of yards in Regina are redoing the front yard so there's no grass at all. I've been very slowly doing that here. Our yard has waited while I worked in public garden spots for Communities in Bloom so things I'd like to do are still only on paper.
The Ironside girls have given me some books that I will now be able to follow up in garden designs.