Mid-Winter Yard Update, Part IV

Here's the status of the front yard, as I slowly get rid of the gravel. I just added the middle section, which looks pretty barren right now:

The Arbutus menziesii is still chugging along, in spite of my fears that it would have an early demise:

Here's the back yard in the rain:

One of the plants I put in the new section of the front yard is this Clematis chrysocoma, with the idea that it will twine its way through the Moss Rose and 'Tour de Malakoff'' Centifolia Rose I also planted there: