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Hillside Landscaping
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Hillside Landscaping... If you trying to do landscaping on a hillside or sloping ground then the biggest challenge you will face is retaining water for the plants that will grow on the slope. Because of gravity the water will always try to flow towards ground level and it will also take with it sand every time you water the plants. The only possible solution to this problem is constructing retaining walls and converting the slope into a stepped ground. the retaining wall is normally built using stones with horizontal courses. The stones used for this purpose are carefully selected so that they can easily rest on top of each other and create a solid and balanced structure. The wall is normally constructed with a little tilt i.e. wider at the base and thinner at top, so that it can easily transfer the load of the soil it retains on top.
Recommended Hillside Landscaping Book
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Copyright 2005 Shrinivas Vaidya, an expert in hillside landscaping.
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Naturally Sloping Land-
Here is a picture of naturally sloping land before creating a terraced
wall structure. As seen it is very easy to flow out all the sand from the
slopes exposing plant roots.
Terrace
Creation- This problem can be easily solved using retaining walls to
create a terraces like arrangement to retain soil. This is like creating leveled
ground for planting flowerbeds/shrubs at three levels. The height and the
width of the retaining walls depends upon the nature and degree of the
original natural slope. the steeper the slope the more will be the height
of the retaining wall.
