|
Cosmetic and functional ideas-for-landscaping-a-hill
You can create curb appeal with these ideas-for-landscaping-a-hill and have the nicest looking landscape on the block. A good design compliments the home and works together with architecture to create attractive, eye catching overall look to the home. A slope can be a challenge when planning the irrigation and grading, but a landscape like this can also present your home in a more majestic manor.
Use retention walls to level the lawn at the top of the slope. The retention walls do wonders for the look of the landscape. They create
landscape borders
with color variation, and establish separate elevations for the different terraces.
Of course covering the slope with grass is the cheapest way to go, but then you must be concerned with the
landscape drainage
. All of the irrigation water will run to the bottom.
When I am landscaping slopes I like to include lawn around the drive and walk edges. Since those grades are already established it is usually easy to follow the grade of those hard surfaces, and also because I like to have lawn touch the patios and walkways in any
landscape design
. I prefer to use
landscaping blocks
called
Diamond Block
to create the retention walls. No mortar is used when stacking these blocks. The diamond wall design is based on the ancient roman design using weight and friction to create a wall to hold back the earth. In the photo above we created a landscape for the sloping front yard that blends the sloping lawn into terraces created by the retention walls. Various groups of
landscape trees
are used to create islands of greenery and shade.
Great ideas-for-landscaping-a-hill top of page
|
