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- Create a beautiful and safe front garden on a hillside - you should pay attention to that
- Protect hillside against landslide - Tips for creative solutions
- Creating levels and planting individually - that's how it works
- Tips
On slopes, water courses can easily be integrated into the front yard
Create a beautiful and safe front garden on a hillside - you should pay attention to that
A front garden with a slope offers many advantages for a spectacular design. Before you can let your imaginative ideas run free, important safety aspects are in focus. This guide explains how to make a front garden on the slope skilful and safe.
Protect hillside against landslide - Tips for creative solutions
Slope stabilization is a top priority. Depending on the grade of slope and the intended style of your front yard, the following solutions are available:
Important to note is that from a wall height of 100 cm, a structural engineer must be consulted to certify the stability with a stability certificate. Moreover, heavyweight walls are also dependent on the slope on a concrete foundation.
Creating levels and planting individually - that's how it works
If you have solved the problem of a stable and reliable slope support, the mandatory program is completed. Now follows the freestyle in the creative garden design on the hillside. Along a long visual axis, you have one or more levels available to plant these varied and pas garden style. The following ideas would inspire your horticultural imagination:
Flowering and evergreen ground cover are great for adding stability to a hillside front yard. For sunny locations, there are carpet-flaming-flowers (Phlox douglasii) and blue-cushions (Aubrieta). Where there is scarcity of sunlight on the slope, thick-males (Pachysandra terminalis), ivy (Hedera helix) and the wonderful carpetberry (Gaultheria procumbens) stand out.
Tips
A front garden on a slope is predestined for an authentic design based on the ideas of Japanese garden art. This is especially true for the inclusion of running water as a supporting design element. While a stream is elaborately constructed on flat surfaces or simulated with pebbles, it almost spontaneously develops on a slope.