580 Pounds of Rocks

We've been working on a garden project over the last few days.  The front bed needed some attention. 

As you can see there were plenty of weeds.  We found out that our infestation is a bad one called horsetail.  It has long underground roots and pulling it out just encourages it to grow bigger, stronger, and more aggressive... or so I've read on the internet.

But, we pulled it out anyway.

Then we put some rocks along the edge of the bed to prevent all our topsoil from washing away.  Here's the Before and After.  Now we just need some flowers.  I'm going for a cottage look eventually.  We have another problem with a half-dead Rose of Sharon tree, and some half-dead spirea shrubs.