Thinking about it, it would be a long grocery carry from the bottom, over the lower bridges and up the stairs.

If you are not going to be terracing the hillside and creating flat areas for planting, adding large rocks and boulders is a good alternative way to anchor the soil while the plants take hold.This planter promotes strong plant growth and soil stabilization while capturing rain and water runoff. You can see in the front, the beds are almost two feet, and by the time you reach the backs, they’re barely 6 inches off the ground.

This particular garden was so complex and interesting and challenging to describe that I am going to let Allan’s photos tell their own story about his experience of the hillside.I will work through all of these to see a worthwhile garden and a warning, even if seen, would not have stopped me from trying. Since stone tends to heat up early in the spring and hold heat at night, you are creating a microclimate that will allow you to grow plants that would not survive in other areas of your yard.