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Beaver1 -
First I should commend you on the base prep - the wall looks very level. Nice work.
Re: the drainage - having the top of a bucket exposed to the air is going to look funny, but more importantly, daylighting the drain pipe below grade defeats some of the purpose of the drain, as the water will always be underground, and you may get water entering the bucket through those holes you put in there. Better would have been to simply daylight the drain just above grade, notching out a block to receive the pipe.
It looks like your soil might be sandy, so it may drain all the water directly down anyway, and not cause a problem.
Re: the plant bed/paver area - your concern is justified. Building a separate wall that would get capped by the pavers (making the wall invisible would be an excellent solution, as it'd allow you to have quality soil as deep as you'd like for the plant bed and not affect the base of the paver area. Note that if you are capping the wall with pavers, the elevation of each course of block will be different than that of your existing wall.
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