it's getting there

This plant is, indeed, flowering in a pot ... but beyond it, you can see the garden coming along happily (it'll be especially grateful if it does, indeed, rain next weekend, but the irrigation now comes on ... and somehow is tied in to the National Weather Service, so should do so when appropriate).  You can see how the slopes have been planted out, and then covered with mulch.  Behind me is a whole curving re-stuccoed wall, which needs to dry out, and then be painted; and then more planting happens in front of it, and eventually we'll have some garden furniture, and then ... It's been very nearly a year since work started on this, but it's getting there ...