Hillside Landscaping

Exposed Aggregate Concrete Driveway, Stamped Concrete Border, Two Colors

Narrow evergreen trees are a must if you want privacy and year-round interest in a small garden or side yard. Here are the top picks for unique, skinny evergreen trees.

Today, I am going to show you two properties where each of the designers had the challenge of creating a beautiful garden on two steeply sloping ravines. In the first garden, the ravine literally cuts the property in two on the diagonal. As you can see from this first image, the property falls off dramatically just off the back deck. The task was then to link the back garden with the other side of the ravine. This is a very quick, not-to-scale plan of the garden just to give you a clearer…

Waban Hillside | Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design LLC

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Use Outdoor Essentials railroad ties for decorative landscaping, retaining walls, edging and more.

Steep Hill Landscaping shares a super-cool portfolio of photos before, during, & after a hillside landscape transformation.

Hillside landscaping can be confusing, but not if you have a few key tools in your toolbox. After 20+ years in the landscape business, here are mine.

As I mentioned in the Hillside Landscape post, our backyard consists of a small flat area near the house and a cleared hillside that continues up into a wooded area. Once we moved and settled into our home, we realized that the hill was actually one large Alabama sandstone rock loosely covered with a combination of weeds and grass. The dirt layer over the rock varied from a foot or so deep, to just several inches in some areas. Ultimately our solution, after considering many options, was to…

The start of the picket fence garden. The first step was to level the sloped yard to create a terraced step area. The Old Depot Project.