"Arbor and Gazing Ball Bed....."

I've already posted this photo on Friday, May 31st, when I wrote about assembling our tumbling compost bin, but I need to post it again, so you can see what the "before" looked like.  Yesterday I worked on re-constructing the arbor, the front half of which had fallen down.  I also weeded/cleaned out the round, stone surround raised bed, in front of the arbor.

Here is the "before" photo once again......

And here is how it looks "after" re-construction.  I think it looks pretty good and it will, of course, look MUCH better once the beds along its sides are cleaned out.  I don't know what the climbing vine is that is growing on the left side of it, but am thinking it might be a Clematis?   Perhaps a grape vine will be planted on the right side?  Anyone have a suggestion?

Here is the full "before" photo of the round raised bed in front of the arbor.  When unpacking one of the garage boxes, I found the gazing ball stand, so searched our "box list" to find the gazing ball so I could set them up in this round bed, which I thought perfect for it.

And here is the "after".  I haven't yet decided what I want to plant in this bed.  The soil will also have to be amended with peat moss and compost like I did with the other raised beds.  My plan is to also mulch all the beds, too.  I bought a bale of straw to use as mulch for the vegetable beds and will write a post about those tomorrow, but will most likely use a more decorative mulch for the flower beds.  Having as much help as one can, holding moisture in this sandy soil, is imperative.  ;)

The clean up continues...............