What would you do with this? Doorstep Garden Design Challenge

Design Challenge: Make this flotsam garden into something enchanting.

Design information:

Exclusive Tokyo neighborhood
Gets full morning sun, very hot in summer.
Neighbouring dog contribution issues.
Beside the front door of the owners home-office. She writes passionate and beautiful books on edible gardens, but her enthusiasm for eating from this particular gutter-garden is not high.
Ower recently pulled out the mint, saying 'Its creepy'.

What first aid would you give?

What would your first planting scheme be?

With an unlimited budget, what would you create?
Think about low-med-high plants, colors, lighting, water features, compost, seasonal changes.

Double-click this to open large,
trace gently on paper over your computer screen,
fill in with drawings of something cool.

Looking forward to your comments, sketches or mails before next Wednesday ( May 19th) to
permaculture.creative@gmail.com

Planting day is the week after. If she makes your design, of course you will get a present - shes Japanese.

Here what the Joneses did.
I'm impressed at how they created another world, a foresty world, with just two plants. These two greens are not your average green. I'd never put them together, but don't they look a striking couple.
The whole thing tinkles with movement when there is a breeze, a lively garden. No soil for the mutts to go fossiciking in. Poor doggies, what will they do when we've finished?
A solution Here creates a problem Over There, and thats life. Keeps us save-the-worlders from getting uppity.