Nobody enjoys wrestling with a steep lawn. Transform this hillside with terraced planting beds along rough stone stairs rather than turf grass. For year-round texture and color, fill the tiers with ...

A house situated at the top of a downward sloping backyard with a lawn, landscaping mulch, and shrubs. - Irina88w/Getty Images Sloped yards are challenging to landscape and maintain. There's little ...

Sloped sites present many challenges to the landscape designer. The grounds are often unstable; drainage may pose a problem and comfortable movement may not be so obvious. Hence their design should be ...

Is your house built on a tilt? Much of Seattle is, and we can thank the glaciers. The same ice sheets that gave us our steep hills and sweeping views also gave us yards that have us mowing at crazy ...