If that isn’t an option then stagger the change in level with 2 retaining walls and create a transition planter so that you’re not looking at straight at a tall wall as shown in the photo below.Īnd if that’s not possible then try to line steps to the upper levels up with your key viewing points of the garden, e.g. If you need to have a high wall, dig it back further away from the house and give yourself as much ground-level surface as you can. If you have a lot of soil to retain with walls there’s a couple of options. Slope UPīut with gardens that slope up from the house, you need to terrace it in a way that makes the most of the space and doesn’t make it feel like you’re imprisoned by retaining walls… Design differences with slopes that go up vs down from the houseĭesign-wise, regardless of the direction your garden slopes you still need to do what’s already been discussed by creating clearly defined shapes that suit the garden (which I cover in detail in our online garden design courses).
This option will still need retaining walls, but less because you’re only putting them around the patio and or main lawn area. Done well, the planting will eventually take your eyes away from the fact the borders are sloping. So come up with a design layout that links them together and then make them as flat as you can (without having to sell any relatives or body parts) and leave the rest of the garden to slope naturally. The things you will notice the most are your patio and lawn areas. Like all good compromises, this is somewhere in the middle of two listed above. The neighbours probably won’t want you to build a terrace that means you overlook their garden all the time, nor will they appreciate their garden suddenly disappearing under your fence in the first heavy downpour because you’ve changed the levels and not put in enough retaining walls! 3. That’s not to say you can’t move and adjust the position of the level change – you can and should take aesthetics into account, just try not to go overboard with your soil moving and think about how your changes are likely to impact your neighbours. If you’ve got young children or older relatives who are a little wobbly on their legs the slower level changes are preferable. Whilst you can completely change the levels with machinery, it will cost less if you base your level changes on what’s there now. That decision needs to be made depending on the existing levels. Slowly is when you have several levels that gradually get you from the top to bottom of the garden with only 3 or 4 steps per level.
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