Before/After Pictures Set 3 (see below for story):
Here is our back parking area at the end of our shared driveway. Sy had begun clearing out the vines a few weeks ago and we finished it off, pulled out the spider grass and planted pitosporum.

I don't have before pictures for the back patio by our deck, but there were two "parking lot" bushes that were as high as the fence, lots of vines and random bulbs, and a dead big, leafy plant. We discovered after clearing everything out that the brick patio was much bigger than we thought :) The perfect place for the fire pit I got Sy for Father's Day last year!