I also wanted to make the front look a little better so I extended the front flower bed. It's not complete, I'm just making sure I have it the way I like it before adding mulch and plants. I put down some pine needles left over from the pine tree I cut down just to make it look a little better then dirt/mud.

Previous look
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1st flower bed I made for the side area, and if you look right before the patio their was some other concrete step type of look which I didn't like.
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I started to take out the concrete stepping blocks, but found out they were actually cinder blocks. One had a cut, on had a old plastic bowl, and most were just small gravel and dirty/mud. My only guess was to keep grass and weed from coming on top the patio, but dirt, weed, or anything else comes on the left side between the house and garage part where the stone isn't so I think it was just a cheap thing.
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The concrete blocks
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Then I marked the new area I was thinking about adding the new flower bed so I could get a better look and I liked it so I tilled up the area.
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After tilled and adding pine needles (just temp)
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Now new look, and I added a couple of stepping stones (temp) so you can walk to the patio and yard without stepping in mud/dirt/pine needles. I am going to get 1 big stepping stone when I mulch.
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