About to buy my first property, how do you handle landscaping?

[Steffan Daus]

I'm about to purchase my first home period, the plan is to live in it for a year then start renting it out (I got USDA Financing, hence the occupancy thing). The question I have right now is, what should I do with the landscaping? 

The current residents had a big herb garden in the back and it has a fairly smoth down hill incline as well. The front lawn is covered in weeds and looks like it was never treated with seed or fertilizer. The front flower beds have some standard bushes in them, or at least they would be standard if they did not have those wire Christmas reindeer planted in the middle of them (bush and ornament are now one). Other than that it is in a state of disrepair. What should I do with this and how should I handle it's future upkeep?