Locating a house on a slope with outcroppings of rock offers a challenge to any gardener who enjoys working with plants that can be adapted to such a setting.
Sprawling Plants To Cover Slopes
Low, spreading junipers and yews, Daphne eneoruni, pieris, leucothoc, azaleas, and dwarf species of rhododendrons together with evergreen ground covers are ideal plants with which to clothe it, as the picture below shows.
These shrubs control erosion and make a pleasant series of contrasts in foliage texture that provide relief from the monotony of grass, which usually burns badly in Summer in areas where the soil is sparse.
Gives Spaciousness
Furthermore, the irregular outline these sprawling plants make gives the grounds a spaciousness far beyond the actual limits of the place.
To be sure, some “know-how” is necessary, but that is always within reach if those who seek it would learn to study the habits of plants that they want.
Use of Suitable Planting
Where a gentle rise in the ground is brought about by cutting into a slight slope to approach a garage, the result is often a ragged lawn edge that owners and visitors tend to cut across to enter the house.
This situation is easily corrected by suitable planting that might include drywall against a background of evergreens, like the treatment in the photograph above.
This kind of planting provides for colorful bloom during the warm months and the softening texture of evergreens year ’round.
Then, too, such treatment helps to tie the house in permanently with the landscape surrounding it.
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