Our yard could use a makeover!!! and its a quarter or less of this one!!!

We have 23 acres and no landscape in sight..

We have 3 storey townhomes along the entire length of our backyard!! No privacy and no noise barrier.  How do we fix this problem fast??

This looks absolutely amazing- the home owners must be thrilled. As the previous commenters we live on a 4+ acreage property that sits on rock  I long for gardens, a pond , privacy. At this point would be thrilled to have some basics and a long term plan - if your looking for more challenges  please keep us in mind. Thanks , Regards , Rose T.

Fantastic, I would not be able to even try to make a lot so beautiful, what a dream.  As far as my own property, I am trying to landscape with perennial plants and bushes.  After 3 years of work, they triple in size multiply in numbers.  As for now, I have to relandscape since some are in at the right place and I transplant some in the back yard.  How I would like to have advice as to where and how to mix them together and look like a botanic garden.  Thanks for the advice.  My lot is 300' X 200' surrounded with a cedar hedge which is not bad.  In the back yard, we have some trees, parts of the wood behind the property.

What a dream, too bad it's not mine.

I wasn't all that impressed.  I think the choice of trees in the front were wrong, instead I would have used more evergreens and sculped plants which would make it look more grand.  The courtyard also looks too busy.  I would have been disappointed.

We built our house 14 years ago in the middle of a farmer's field, and have done landscaping etc. in stages. Happily we seem to have had a good vision, as we started out with teh drive to one side so the lawn is in front of the house. Three years ago, we added a garage to the house and new landscaping in the front which also provides us with a beautifully private courtyard that leads down to our lawn via stone steps.  We had a landscape architect plan where things were to go and we just keep adding when we have teh time and money. Having a plan from an architect, but then doing it all in pieces makes it very affordable to end up with fabulous gardens without the possible waste of time and money that could come of just starting without a plan and finding out later that a tree would have been better placed elsewhere.

Of course, if you had the money that this home owner did, getting it all done at once like that would be a dream. A beautiful job.

I'm ready, but don't know where to start!

I'm widowed and trying to maintain my yard and gardens alone.  It's been very difficult because of the physical aspect of trying not to let it 'go'.  The main obstacle to enjoying my yard is the grass.  I would like to completely remove all the grass and let the yard go naked, but I can't seem to envision the end result., so I don't know where and how to begin.  I've been searching online, and for books on the subject, but 'grassless landscaping' is a fairly new concept for suburban yards, and there are very little publications out there for guidance.  I would love to see a series of  shows on the subject.