We moved to this site in 2015. We have 3/4 of an acre of land and there was nothing on it except a house and some landscaping directly in front of the home. The back yard was fenced which has kept the rabbits, deer and armadillo out of the garden.
My back yard in 2015 was empty. It had grass and little of that. 
Jera’s Garden is centered in the back lawn. It consists of fourteen 42 inch square beds that are 8 inches deep. They are arranged in a semi formal, rectangular manner with an archway entry off of a semi circular stone patio. The beds are made from a composite plastic and wood flour recycled material by Greenland Gardener. The entire garden is underlain with landscaping fabric and separated with Indiana Pea Stones at a depth of about 4 inches.
Behind the beds there is another semi circular area mirroring the patio in the front. It has a pea gravel pathway and a step up centered behind the garden to accommodate a slope. The step leads to a chaste tree. This area is filled with pine straw and has red roses, shasta daises and day lilies. Meant to be a red, white and blue garden in the late spring, the back of the garden has clean lines.
Square and circular designs work together in the garden. In addition to the semi circular areas abutting the main garden, the first box through the arch has a circular water feature with a solar pump.
Check out the In the News section of the blog home page to see a step by step instructable of how the garden was built.
In the Garden With Jera 