Garden Pic Wednesday: Front Naturalized Area & Baby Boxie

Today, I cleaned up the bed that runs along the castle block wall. Greek Oregano and Asparagus Fern dangle over that wall and the bed along it holds blackberries, daylilies, succulent filled teacups and so on. 

My main mission was trimming out dead growth in the blackberries and tying new growth up on tall stakes. The 5 foot stems were flopped out in the yard where they were in the way of mowing. Now they're tied up. Also took opportunity to dig in some Miracle-gro infused garden soil around their roots.  

While clearing the area around the base of the blackberries and thinning out the asparagus fern, I found this:

A Baby Box Turtle:

Shell was about 2 1/2 inches in length.

I also took a shot of the naturalized area up front where the mail box is between our driveway and the street that's been a work in progress for a couple years now:This view is from the street. You can see the Gaillardia there in the middle, coneflowers in front, an asparagus fern and a daylily on the right and behined the Gaillardia, a Mexican Heather.

I'm trying to encourage Golden Jenny to grow here plus also have Creeping Thyme and Creeping Basil.
This location is very arid suited to only the most drought-hardy stuff.