A sloping front garden offers a variety of advantages for a spectacular design. Before you can let your imaginative ideas run free, important safety aspects are the focus. This guide explains how to skilfully and safely design a front yard on a slope.

Watercourses can easily be integrated into the front garden on a hillside

Securing slopes against landslides - tips for creative solutions

Slope stabilization has top priority. Depending on the degree of slope and the desired style of your front yard, the following solutions are possible:

  • Dry stone walls for the romantic country house garden
  • Gabions filled with gravel or crushed stone for the modern front garden
  • Palisades made of wood or old railway sleepers for the historic cottage garden
  • Inexpensive and modern with concrete plant stones
  • Deep-rooted plants on a slight incline

It is important to note that from a wall height of 100 cm, a structural engineer must be consulted in order to certify the stability with a proof of stability. In addition, gravity walls also depend on a concrete foundation on slopes.

Creating levels and planting them individually - this is how it works

If you have solved the problem of a stable and reliable slope support, the compulsory program is completed. Now comes the freestyle in the creative design of the front yard on the slope. Along a long visual axis, you have one or more levels at your disposal for planting in a varied way that matches the style of the garden. The following ideas would like to inspire your gardening imagination:

  • Steep southern slope: bed roses, yellow harlequin, bergenias and hanging cushion bluebells
  • Alternatively, extra easy-care ornamental grasses: heart trembling grass (Briza media) or mosquito grass (Bouteloua gracilis)
  • Embankment on the north side: Autumn Anemone, Spindlebush, Goldnettle and Waxbell
  • Alternatively shade-tolerant ornamental grasses: sedges (Carex) or hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)

Flowering and evergreen ground covers are excellent for adding stability to a sloped front yard. Carpet flame flowers (Phlox douglasii) and blue cushions (Aubrieta) are ideal for sunny locations. Where sunlight is scarce on the slope, thickets (Pachysandra terminalis), ivy (Hedera helix) and the wonderful carpet berry (Gaultheria procumbens) take center stage.

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A front garden on a slope is predestined for an authentic design based on the ideas of Japanese garden art. This applies above all to the inclusion of running water as a supporting design element. While a stream is laboriously built or simulated with pebbles on level surfaces, on slopes it appears almost by itself.

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