We have about 1.25 acres on the side of a decent sized hill. My ranch style house is in about the middle of the lot. The driveway leads up from the road the front is mostly xeriscape with drip lines running to draught tolerant palms, cacti and succulents. I have a few rock vignettes for interest and mostly dg (decomposed granite) for ground cover. Only part of the back yard is landscaped with a pool, palm trees, a fake grass putting green and short retaining wall at house level. The lower part of the yard I have a huge avocado tree and kumquat tree. The rest of the area is left wild with mostly native bushes and grasses oh and weeds. Everytime it rains I swear it rains weeds :-)