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Sunken Reflecting Pool and Central Rill

No. 15 Landscaping · Modern

Sunken Reflecting Pool and Central Rill

In this modern courtyard, a black stone rill flows through a manicured lawn into a rectangular reflecting pool water feature, framed by brick boundary walls and textured planting.

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Design notes

Modern landscaping is structured: massed grasses and succulents, gravel and steel-edged beds, a few sculptural trees and lawn reduced to a deliberate panel. Lighting grazes walls and uplights trunks.

What to look for

  • Three layers: canopy, shrubs, groundcover
  • How hardscape and planting share the edges
  • Plants suited to the climate, not just the photo
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