A front garden with a slope offers a variety of advantages for a spectacular design. Before you can give free rein to your imaginative ideas, important safety aspects come into focus. This guide explains how you can design a front garden on a slope skillfully and safely.
How do you design a front garden with a slope?
A front garden on a slope should first be stabilized with slope stabilization such as dry stone walls, gabions or palisades. Several levels can then be created and planted with site-appropriate plants and ground cover to achieve an interesting and attractive garden design.
Securing slopes against landslides – tips for creative solutions
Securing slopes is the top priority. Depending on the degree of slope and the desired style of your front garden, the following solutions are available:
- Dry stone walls for the romantic country house garden
- Gabions filled with gravel or gravel for the modern front garden
- Palisades made of wood or old railway sleepers for the historic cottage garden
- Inexpensive and modern with concrete plant stones
- Deep-rooted plants on a slight slope
It is important to note that from a wall height of 100 cm, a structural engineer must be consulted to certify the stability with a proof of stability. In addition, gravity walls rely on a concrete foundation, even on slopes.
Create levels and plant them individually – this is how it works
Once you have solved the problem of stable and reliable slope support, the mandatory program has been completed. Now comes the freestyle in the creative front garden design on the slope. One or more levels are available to you along a long visual axis so that you can plant them in a variety of ways that match the garden style. The following ideas would like to inspire your gardening imagination:
- Steep southern slope: floribunda roses, yellow girl's eye, bergenias and hanging bluebells
- Alternatively, extra-easy-care ornamental grasses: heart quaking grass (Briza media) or mosquito grass (Bouteloua gracilis)
- Embankment on the north side: autumn anemone, spindle bush, golden nettle and wax bell
- Alternatively shade-tolerant ornamental grasses: sedges (Carex) or forest scythes (Deschampsia cespitosa)
Flowering and evergreen ground covers are ideal for adding even more stability to a front garden on a slope. Carpet phloxes (Phlox douglasii) and blue cushions (Aubrieta) are ideal for sunny locations. Where sunlight is scarce on the slopes, fat men (Pachysandra terminalis), ivy (Hedera helix) and the wonderful carpet berry (Gaultheria procumbens) take center stage.
Tip
A front garden on a slope is predestined for an authentic design based on the ideas of Japanese garden art. This particularly applies to the inclusion of running water as a supporting design element. While on flat surfaces a stream is built with great effort or simulated with pebbles, on a slope it forms almost by itself.
