Beautiful Sloping Garden Ideas That Show You How To Deal With

Slopes usually make building quite difficult but when it comes to landscaping a little bit of depth and level differentiation can look really nice. Sloping gardens as a result are very beautiful and an excellent choice if you’re dealing with an uneven piece of land.

Steps are a very practical way of linking two spaces that are on different levels and it would make sense to integrate them into a sloping garden design.

It could also be the case that the terrain makes it possible to have a short transition between the area at the top of the slope and the one below.

In a case like this you can use retaining walls with bordered by stairs and you can decorate these with large outdoor planters. A simple solution to avoid such issues is to have built-in planters that help make the transition smoother and that also fit seamlessly into the landscape.

You can go with strategy if you’re dealing with a sloping garden and add a series of retaining walls that divide the space into sections. They can be used as retaining walls when creating a terraced design but they can also be used to make steps like the ones shared here by @tayviewgarden.

For example, you can have large planter beds for veggies, herbs, flowers and all sorts of other things and everything can be neatly organized on different levels.

A steep slope is practically begging for a terraced garden design but that means there’s less space for sitting areas and other outdoor features that you would normally be able to have in a flat backyard. Beautiful sloping gardens like the one designed by studio Shaaroffice show that these challenges can be overcome with creativity. Check out how well the outdoor sitting area and tiered planters are integrated into this sloping garden.

You can cover it with lots of different plants and flowers and have a nice deck with benches built into the retaining walls at the bottom. The steep slope was turned here into a lovely garden for succulents and cacti and it nicely organized into several distinct sections.

You can still do it even if you have a steeply sloping garden by creating a terraced structure with planter beds or retaining walls.

It’s actually a nice way to divide the garden and to dedicate each tier to a different type of plant.

This garden by K Morris Landscape Design has a nice rustic feel to it and can be a good source of inspiration. This is actually a really great idea for areas with arid climate and dry landscape because the weathered finish fits nicely into their color palette.