How To Design A Hillside Garden
Follow this gardener s lead and use the existing rocks but reposition them.
How to design a hillside garden. It was one with the forest a. If your hillside is basically scree consider yourself lucky. It was delightfully unkempt and blissfully uncultivated dynamic and self regulating chaotic and biotic.
Low maintenance plants for a hillside garden. Add wooden table and chair on your garden. You just need to have some plants on the wooden planting area to create a fresh yet classic hillside.
Here too all the rules of garden design that we discuss in our blog often apply. As a hillside garden is divided gradually you can customize levels in different styles. The little hillside was perfectly content with its wildness once proud of its brazen disarray.
The biggest challenge of the hillside is the risk of runoff. As in any typical garden you can plant many species of plants in the hanging garden and create a comfortable seating area. The first step on any hillside is to correct or eliminate point sources for water such as downspout outlets.
Larger slabs are used as steps and platforms. To reduce foot traffic that could disturb soil and plants select lower maintenance varieties. You can create a unique alpine garden that will draw the eye upward.
She also makes liberal use of hypertufa which blends in beautifully with the natural stone.