Landscaping proceeding...a bit slowly

Our landscaping is progressing slowly. The landscaper has a couple of large jobs at the moment so we're all sharing.

Here are some photos of the driveway, retaining walls and pavers out the front. The walls still need to be rendered and painted:

The letterbox still needs to be constructed and the two pillars either side of front steps will have stacked stone.

The pavers and stepping stones. Plants and trees will be going in the blank areas with dark mulch and lucky stones. We are using natives and Dwarf Magnolia trees.

Here's some of the plants going in these areas:

Water feature, planter boxes, steel frames for timber screening and framing for the deck. If you look closely, you can see a drain trench beneath the deck frame towards the right. The water feature still needs a course or two of blocks, the spout and will be clad with stacked stone.

The plants to go in the planter box and beside it:



Ashlar pattern stepping stones. These stones will have a groundcover planted between them and lucky stones. Here are some of the plants in this area: