Well those were the suggestions and then the email went on to talk about taking a photograph and recording the change over time. I figured this was an opportunity to do what I've been meaning to do for ages - take some photos of the new garden beds so that we can see what they look like down the track. So that's pretty much what I did.
This is the front yard when we moved in about 18 months ago. Since then we've added a front fence and a whole heap of plants with more to go.