Anatomy of a landscape project - part 2

To follow-up on the poor resolution quality YouTube movie that was posted yesterday , here are a few abbreviated photos of the project.

The first is a montage of the model which was made to visually assist the clients in seeing their design .

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Jumping several weeks ahead after much grading , drainage , steel and concrete form work, here is a photo showing the day the concrete was poured .
You can see Miguel troweling the colored concrete smooth and the wall in the background just had one of its forms pulled off and was starting to be finished.

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Below is the water feature / bench .
It will serves several functions.
# 1 - It acts as a spatial division between the front and side yards
# 2 - It will have a flowing sheet of water spilling out from a copper spout
# 3 - It will have a sitting bench built in .
# 4 - It serves as a sculptural element directing visitors to the adjacent recessed front door

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A detail of the colored concrete path, the honed black granite inlaid strip(s) and the black pebbles.

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So we are in our 6 th week of construction and I am starting to bring in the plants for the planting as well as some of the sculptural elements such as the pots.

The strip/ bed that the red pots are currently sitting on will get a carpeting of black shiny mexican pebbles slightly larger that the black pebble mosaic. Then the red pots will be placed on top of the pebble bed and planted with equisetum ( horsetail )
The rest of the plants that you see in this photo are destined for other locations in the garden.

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