Don and I have this lovely large backyard (lovely, in terms of size, I mean) but no time to do what we want with it.  We've had a couple of false starts with some nice plants, but watering regularly isn't something either of us has time for.  We only sporadically keep up with the front yard.  What Don dreams of for back there is creating raised beds for herbs and veggies, with maybe some space still left over for an English garden.  Let's just say we are currently reserving it for that.  And in the meantime we treasure it as a blank slate-- a birdland, punctuated by gophers holes.....oh yeah, and most recently, it seems to have produced a couple of bicolored (cap & mantle) Fairy cats; Tinkerbell, and her kitten, Pixy.