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Ideas needed for sloping garden

jks_53

By Jks_53

United Kingdom Gb

I need to make my sloping garden easy to maintain but it has lawns, a few flower borders and the added problem of a very strange shape. Any easy and low cost ideas of what I can do with it?




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A useful plant for sloping gardens is the Vinca, both major and minor. It spreads and is colourful. Gravel beds are lovely instead of lawns. You can grow all sorts of great plants in them which self-seed once you've got them going - grasses too. They wouldn't need much maintenance, either. To help a bit more, instead of flowers, why don't you think about easy evergreen variegated shrubs?
I think a photo or two of your garden at the moment might help us to give you more ideas.

15 Sep, 2008

 

ski run?....sorry couldn't resist........steve

16 Sep, 2008

 

Tut tut, Steve - we are trying to help Jks, not make him/her laugh! Mind you, could be a goer it he/she is the sporty type!

16 Sep, 2008

 

if you terrace your garden that mite make it a lot easier.if you like water feactures a sloping garden is naturaly brilliant for a man made stream and pond.you could membrane terracing and put a mulch on it and just plant what you want.maybe evergreen shrubs.i hope ive helped

17 Sep, 2008

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