Securing slopes against landslides - tips for creative solutions
Slope securing has top priority. Depending on the degree of the slope and the desired style of your front yard, the following solutions are available:
- Dry stone walls for the romantic Cottage 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 plant stones made of concrete
- Plants with deep roots on a slight slope
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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 rely on a concrete foundation on the slope.
Creating levels and planting individually - this is how it works
Once you have solved the problem of stable and reliable slope support, you have completed the compulsory program. Now follows the freestyle in the creative front garden design on the slope. One or more levels are available along a long line of sight so that they can be planted in a variety of ways and to match the style of the garden. The following ideas would like to spark your horticultural imagination:
- Steep southern slope: bed roses, yellow girl's eye, Bergenia and hanging bellflowers
- Alternatively, extra easy-care ornamental grasses: Heart quiver grass (Briza media) or mosquito grass (Bouteloua gracilis)
- embankment on the north side: autumnanemone, Spindle bush, Golden nettle and wax bell
- Alternatively, shade-compatible ornamental grasses: sedges (Carex) or forest smocks (Deschampsia cespitosa)
Flowering and evergreen ground cover are ideal for adding even more stability to a front yard on a slope. Carpet flame flowers are ideal for sunny locations (phlox douglasii) and Blue pillows (Aubrieta). Where there is a shortage of sunlight on a slope, fat men (Pachysandra terminalis), ivy (Hedera helix) and the wonderful carpet berries (Gaultheria procumbens) stand out.
Tips
A front yard on a slope is predestined for an authentic design based on the ideas Japanese Garden art. This is especially true for the inclusion of running water as a supporting design element. While on flat surfaces Stream If it is elaborately built or simulated with pebbles, it arises almost automatically on a hillside.
