How and why to give yourself access to the back of your garden
A trick that I learned a long time ago is to give yourself access to the back of your garden. If you don't do that, you have to step into the planting area whenever you need to do some trimming or weeding, which you can do, carefully, but it shouldn't be a regular thing. A path behind the garden doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be stable, or you'll find yourself avoiding it and instead walking into the planting area - which of course you don't want to do. In the area pictured, next to the house, I have some river rocks for drainage, and then some smoother gray rocks as a transition, and also a few pieces of flagstone, which is for stable footing. This isn't a path to wander around while drinking your coffee (that's in front of the garden), this is for access, to be used only by the gardener, and occasionally by wiener dogs. If you do this, take your time, and be sure that the rocks don't "teeter-totter". It takes a bit of fussing...