Laying out terraces and retaining walls
For these retaining walls, use materials that will suit the house. Houses built with bricks look better when garden walls and paths are made of bricks of similar colors. On the other hand, if you live in a stone house, try making the retaining walls and walkways out of stone. Plastered houses work best in conjunction with concrete walls that are clipped and painted. Modern exterior paints are available in an abundance of excellent colors. All walls should be finished with a wall crown that increases the wall by approx. towers over four centimeters. Steps should be as wide and flat as possible and made of the same material as walls and paths.
also read
- Make the front garden beautiful and safe with a hillside location - this is what you should pay attention to
- How to make a long and narrow flowerbed appealing
- Make flower beds attractive in different shapes
Color design of the different terraces
Each resulting terrace can be different planted will. For example, one level could be decorated with yellow and orange plants, a lower level with Orange, red and purple tones, and again deeper, could be pale blue and bluish-purple tones in the distance merge. In this way, you take up the slope theme again with the choice of flower colors in different flower beds and create a creative depth in the process.
Recommendations for a shady location
At a shady Location, however, this color transition does not work so well because you cannot use the required variety of plants. In this case it might be advisable to move from a symmetrical plane to a less uniform collection mixed shrubs and perennials or a quiet seating area with a water feature or fountain lead down.
Tips
When choosing plants for a bed on a slope, always remember that flowering plants that are tolerant to drought are always in the upper area with a weakness for sun and in the lower area, both shade-tolerant and moisture-tolerant perennials are planted have to. The further up the slope there is a bed, the sunnier and drier it is, as all the water always flows down the hill and accumulates at the foot.
