To move or not, that is the (current) question

Emily & I have been kicking around the idea of selling the house and renting for a while as we try to figure out what comes next. I have nothing against the area where we live, it is clean, safe and usually very quiet, but it is a long way away from most of the people we hang out with. The only real point of attachment to the house is all the work I have done in the backyard, namely next year should feature fruit production from June until late September and when the Kiwi plants are established we would have fresh fruit through the winter. In a couple of weeks the PGE tree trimming company will be delivering 10 yards of wood chips that I will spread over all paths around the yard. I'm have assuming that some of the wood chips will be coming from trees like black walnut which is allelopathic thanks to a compound known as juglone and actively inhibits plant growth.

Emily regularly says that the plants in the backyard seem happy when I'm around, I know the dogs love it when I'm in the backyard, but I'm concerned that the people buying the house from us are going to rip out all the plants and replace them with uniformly green, weedless grass which is one of the biggest insult I can think of.