I have been mowing and edging my yard pretty much all my life. I mowed yards for cash as a kid, and dad only insisted his was mowed as rent on his mower. Once I moved into my house, I had the green perfect lawn in the area. 18 rose bushes, and the place looked nice. Now, several decades later I still mow and edge as a free form of exercise. My neighbor hires a crew to do his yard in short order, and they do a great job. Then he got to a gym and pays a lot of money to exercise.
My master gardener wife keeps planting flowering plants and plants to attract bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies. It gets freaky in the fall with all the butterflies in the yard.
Monarch caterpillars devour the milkweed.
The walkway up to the front porch from the driveway.