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

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. Does your yard have a hard-to-mow slope? Or, if ...

Garden renovation projects might include mounds to add visual interest in an otherwise flat terrain and to provide drainage and other benefits of raised beds. A particular form of the garden mound is ...

“IT HAS ONE of the prettiest views in West Seattle, but it’s SO steep,” says Gary Necci of the nearly vertical garden he has built and planted on his hillside. He has carried every plant and shovelful ...

When you think of landscaping ideas to make your yard look its best, flowering trees, perennials, and clean garden edging may immediately come to mind. While these elements can do wonders for your ...

While it’s common to incorporate rocks into landscape designs, most of the time it’s in the form of a border around plants or a tree, or creating a path through a yard or garden. But there’s another ...

Slopes change a gardener's perspective. No flat lawns and meandering paths, but inclines and declines on which it can be difficult to stand, dig or weed and where plant choices seem more precarious.

Rock gardens have been cultivated for centuries, reports Gardening Contributor Georgia Raimondi for The Saturday Early Show. The Chinese designed rock gardens more than 2,000 years ago. For centuries, ...