@MoonGal I have been working on my backyard for the last three years, we pretty much took out everything that was there apart from one Gumtree, which blew down in a storm. We Put in purple and white Happy wanderer vines on all the fences and now have a tremendous 'hedge' that stays free and year and flowers profusely in winter. I just pruned it today and for all my snipping and mountains of off cuts on the ground it hasn't even made a dent in the vines! 

 I dont have  a picture of my yard on the tablet that I am using, but this is what hardenbergia looks like.

Three years in it is really starting to come together and look good, just waiting for the trees to grow a bit, but the hedging brought much needed greenery in very quickly. Birds and bees love it too.

My vegie garden (not planted out yet I am behind schedule) consists of six orchard boxes converted into raised wicking beds. They're pretty great except I have not been able to grow good tomatoes in them in three years so that is my challenge, getting decent tomatoes. We did have one chook sown bush that was fantastic which came up in the herb garden but the damn things won't grow in the vegie garden no matter where I put them.