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Before you can figure out how you will landscape your hillside,
you have to ask yourself a few questions.
1. How much money do you have for your project?
2. What is the size of your hill? Is it a ten foot high hill, or
only two or three feet high?
3. Do you want to landscape the entire project?
4.What type of landscape do you want to use, terrace, or rock
garden type landscape?
5. What type of plants do you want to use? Do you have
favorites?
6. Do you want to use your hill to create a waterfall
feature?
Now the BIG question ?
Are you a DIY type, or will you hire this landscaping done by a
professional?
Once you have answered the above questions, then start
developing a landscape plan. Of course, if you hire someone to do
the job for you, then they will present their ideas to you for your
approval.
We have only landscaped small hills, created by the dirt that
made the hill when the basement was dug. We have used both rocks
and diamond block to create a terrace. With the diamond blocks you
can create a nice sculpted appearance that is incredibly
pleasing.
As the hillside slopes down, the blocks curve into the slope and
disappear while the ground slopes down around the sides to the
lower level.
An appealing waterfall can be placed on the slope if you are the
type that likes water features. You may or may not have a pond for
the water to fall into. I have seen some wonderful disappearing
pondless waterfalls.
When the water disappears it is collected into a holding tank
where it is filtered and continues to recycle down the hillside in
a forever running stream.
The sound of the water lapping over the rocks in the stream add
the wonderfully peaceful tranquility that people hope for in their
back yards.
There are some fabrics that are made especially for creating the
hillside stream and waterfall. Under the stream is a rubber type
material which keeps the water running down the hillside instead of
seeping into the ground. Small rocks line the rubber stream bed
while larger rocks form the edges of the stream. With the proper
cement to hold everything together the final rocks can be
strategically placed, and then the fabric is engineered into the
design to complete the desired effect.
With a pond, the entire pond has to be lined with a rubber
fabric as well..
I have seen how a waterfall and pond are created. Water has to
be in the pond for several days to test for leaks in the system.
Once you are sure there are no leaks, the surrounding rocks will be
gathered in closer, with trees and bushes are added to keep the eye
from seeing where the water comes from. A barrel collects the
recycled water and the process repeats itself.
Although I can see all this in my mind, it probably has some
steps in the process that you'll discover are missing if you do it
yourself. I'm enough of a DIY person, that if I were younger, I'd
probably attempt this myself. However, with landscapers in the
family now, I'll be happy to pay them to landscape a hill or slope
for me.

<div>Author Info 
Linda Baxter is a piano teacher, and stay at home mom of nine
children, (22 grandchildren) who acted as General Contractor for
building their retirement home. She hired and paid subcontractors,
was overseer of all construction work (with the help of her
husband, RL), and did most of this from her "armchair".and
telephone. She freely shares her experiences on her website, 
<a target="_new" href="http://www.home-built4u.com">http://www.home-built4u.com</a>
- hoping to help other potential owner/builders escape some of the
pitfalls she and RL experienced, of being their own GC.BIO
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