Fruit and flower filled sunny 50x100 lot in inner NE Portland. Pollinator friendly, no chemicals used. Backyard habitat certified silver, with mason bee houses, hummingbird feeders, and birdbaths. Edible plants and trees include: blueberries, raspberries, rhubarb, cherries, cornelian cherries, figs, plum, pears, columnar apples, espaliered apples and Asian pear, weeping black mulberry. Garden is colorful throughout spring, summer and fall with a variety of bulbs and flowering plants, blue and yellow conifers, red-twig dogwoods, and far too many turquoise pots. The garden is water efficient-ish: Grass was replaced with bark chips, except for a small grass area planted with locally created, water-wise Fleur de Lawn. Drip irrigation installed in all garden beds and evergreen sedums are used as ground cover. Re-use features in the garden include a 40’ arbor made from the top bars of the chain link fence that was removed. Northside cedar fence is built on top of the old chain link fence posts. Large stumps from the old cherry tree that had to be taken down were moved to a shady corner of the yard to become nurse logs. History: Started in 2010 with fence-to-fence patchy grass, a wave of invasive vines spilling over from the empty lot next door, a wall of scraggily arborvitae enmeshed in chain link fence, and a single lavender plant. All work done by home-owner, with help from her father, except for sick tree removal, installation of drip-irrigation system and that one time we brought in a friend with a backhoe.