Mountaintop Landscaping Ideas for a Sloped Yard

Retaining Walls

• Retaining walls work well for sloped yards and actually can help make your sloped yard look somewhat level. Create several tiered retaining walls and incorporate flower beds into them for a structured, tailored look. Build retaining walls from a variety of materials, including landscaping logs, bricks and stone. Building a retaining wall is a very simple do-it-yourself project that almost any homeowner can do. Retaining walls also help with drainage issues in your yard.

Creek Bed or Stream

• Easily incorporate a creek bed or stream into a sloped yard. In a simple project for do-it-yourselfers, use a shovel, some landscaping fabric, rocks and water. For a solution to drainage issues in your yard, start a dry creek bed close to your home and design it to drain away from your home in a decorative way. But even if drainage is not an issue, create a stream that pours into a pond to form an eye-catching water feature for your yard.

Rock Garden

• A rock garden is a simple and inexpensive way to deal with a sloped yard. Maintain a rock garden easily because you do not have to worry about watering any plants. Purchase a mix of large and small boulders in various colors to give your garden a colorful look. Add a decorative rock border around the larger rocks or intermix the small and large rocks and use a simple, plastic landscape border to finish off the look. Fill in the empty spaces with gravel to make it even more low-maintenance so that you do not have to pull out weeds. If you love greenery, add a few low-maintenance plants, and you still have a rock garden that is easy to care for.