With innovative hillside landscape ideas, such as terraced beds and low-maintenance plants, you can make the most of a sloped ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. A ...

Planting on any sloped land is more difficult than flat-ground planting because: 1.) it’s harder to walk and work on a slope; and 2.) the soil is usually poor and thin from erosion. Toughest of all is ...

When Esther Hayden moved into her Seven Oaks home in 1990, the hillside in her backyard — similar to many found throughout Rancho Bernardo — had mostly ground cover and was spotted with a few trees.

The studio takes advantage of the natural terraces of a steep slope to create an essential volume that alternates between ...

When Mark Trebilcock first moved to California, he thought his green thumb would follow him from Florida. But instead of thriving fruit trees, he found frustrating clay-heavy soil and sloped ...

There is something really elegant about homes that are perched on top of hills. They seem to say, "Hey, look at me." But when there’s a lawn in front of them that’s bare and brown, they tend to send ...

On a rocky hillside in an agricultural village halfway between Rome and Naples, an ancient form of building is being revived. Dry stone masonry—a technique dating back thousands of years—is being used ...