New plant identified! The plant that is in the middle of the backyard under the tree is called Japanese Spurge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachysandra_terminalis
It has a very nice jade colour groundcover and in late summer there were even little white flowers blooming from it. I think the previous owner did a nice job picking this plant for this location of the garden.
The only problem is, the neighborhood raccoon family has decided to make the Japanese Spurge patch their bathroom, which I am not happy about.... so their "business" has been killing some of this beautiful Japanese Spurge plants. I guess that wild life comes hand in hand with gardening, so I'm sure this is just the beginning of it. I'm trying a few "natural" different anti-raccoon remedies to deter them from coming back. I'm sure that will be featured in another blog post in the near future ;)
(Here's a plant tag I saw at Sheridan Nurseries the other day of a Japanese Spurge)
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