Mine is a disaster. DISASTER. No where near ready. Guess I know what I'm doing this weekend. :)

Retaining wall building this summer. Will have a lawn maybe this fall? :/

We live in Southern California, so we are summer ready year around. We are however doing the rain dance in hopes to get out of this drought.

We have the summer furniture around the fire pit, but it would be helpful if my landlord could mow the lawn better!!!

Have I mentioned how much I love my new garden? From wasteland to urban delight in only a few months! I finished planting everything - even a tree! - and I'm waiting for them to grow. My succulents have so many babies and the climbers have grown about a foot this week. Yesterday I even painted the blue candle purple, same paint as the pergola, so they match (...I think I need to get a life...)

I feel as if my yard is never really ready. It's a lovely country backyard, but always needs some work. I suppose I like it that way. Pretty but not picture perfect nor manicured.

If this question was posted two weeks ago, I would have said no. However, these last two weeks have been fabulous for everything to really pop. Short of getting some bare spots to fill in, I am quite pleased.

Front & back yard

Flowers planted, landscaping refreshed and mulched, "potholes" dug by the squirrels filled and reseeded (and grassy already), chairs and tables cleaned and set up, hammock aired out, firepit in regular use - let summer begin! :)

Every summer my husband's cute little 1964 MGB occupies our front pad parking and our family van goes on the street. The thing rarely starts but it looks good and my husband has made many a neighbourhood friend as he putters away on it. In the winter that cute little red MGB is stored in our back yard in a portable pop-up garage. Unsightly but cost efficient. This year, we somehow forgot to renew our street parking so that cute little red car is in our back yard. Luckily our wonderful neighbours have offered use of their driveways so we can finally move our cute littlle MGB, start working on repairing grass and start outdoor dining. Thank goodness for the village.

We're in the middle of rebuilding the deck, so the back yard is a bit of a mess. But once that's done we should be in pretty good shape!

I voted yes, though there are still a few things to be done..tidy up a bit and the pergola, but that doesn't mean that the yard is not usable. I'll put a few photos here, but there are more in my ideabooks. It will look much better once the plants grow.

Not a chance. We are just starting the build of our long awaited workshop, so the yard now looks like this... (see below). I have serious landscape envy for some of the posted pix of beautifully laid out paving stone walkways etc. Maybe next year my yard won't look like an embarrassment.

I m getting there

Rusty, you'll get there. I am sure my husband wouldn't have a problem with having a construction zone if he had a workshop built:) For now, he took over the garage,,more like two garages:)

Definitely not. Bought our house a year ago and spent all our extra money on kitchen and bath remodel, so no $ to re-do backyard yet.

Backyard is usable for us, but not the oasis we'd like. Maybe by next Spring we'll have saved up enough to tackle the yard in time for Summer 2015 :)

Nope not even close to ready

It's HORRIBLE!!!!!! I'M NOT EXAGGERATING!!!! There are weeds every where, I need to mow the lawn, and pick up dog poop ( hopefully my bro will do that).

By the time my yard is ready for summer, it is winter...! :-/

Got some new hydrangeas planted and new landscape lighting, and we're ready to spend some summer nights outdoors cooking and having fun! :)

Sigh. No.

Still a work in progress new to us in 2013 and had an addition built. So we had sod planted last fall, we are working on the flower beds and slowly adding new plants. A good friend gave me a lot of perennials so excited to see what is blooming in my new flower beds.

My house sits on a full acre lot. With the Texas drought and never enough time, I can't ever get my yard just right. By the time I get the front finished, the back is a mess. I find myself often dreaming about a smaller yard!

how about add some synthatch roof? It will be more leisure

It is ready and looking very nice, but we can't sit out until weather becomes cooler-far too hot to sit out.

We will be ready for summer 2015 with our new deck.

Excuse me but I attached a photo unrelated to our back yard but someone will find it interesting, right ?