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Packed 1/4 inch minus gravel with the front half inch of the top block overlapping the back of lower blocks. Used them for the 7 years we lived there and they never budged.

That would work too. As an extra note - this was the first time I offset wall blocks like this, to use them as steps, and not just to retain soil.

At our last home, we opted for a circular paver block patio kit. Here's a before and after photo of part of the back yard, from one week to a week following.

Depends on where in California. It would probably work most anywhere in northern California near the coastal area, and other pockets. One advantage of that style of garden is that if some various seeds germinate, weeding can be spaced out by weeks because the density cloaks extra stuff. In...

That's interesting. Over here in Oregon, another, "Butterfly Bush" is on invasive lists, although in 40 years of horticulture, I don't recall a single seedling in landscape or forests. In contrast, I see Japanese maples seedlings continually in landscape beds, but those are not on the invasive list.

That sounds like how my mom landscaped when we moved to Beaverton in the 1960s, if I'm understanding your post. If sword ferns and Douglas fir germinated, or vine maple, she would save or transplant, some for the wooded area. Although, she did get a few imports from nurseries, or divisions from...

From one point of view, maybe, but otherwise it can make sense if people think about what's there. The Chitalpa tree blooms all summer. When it goes dormant and loses leaves, the evergreen Japanese holly retain foliage. When the day lilies die back in winter, the winter blooming Camellia...

If it loads, here's a video for our home front yard landscape. I plan to post later in the "gardening" thread which seems to be mostly vegetables and food. We're also doing stuff with corn, zuchini, etc., in a back garden arrangement. Our front yard, when bought 2016, had one big declining...