'In the pictured garden, the gradient was so steep that we needed to step down three steps straight out of the house. 'You can't easily change the difference in height between the top and the bottom of your garden, so what we usually opt for is a tiered design,' he says. But instead, you can opt for multiple levels, as Garden Designer Jonathan Martin of Living Gardens explains. This is because, 'You're not sending excess water into drainage but taking it away from the surface to soak into the soil below.' Can you flatten a sloped garden?Ĭompletely flattening a significant slope is difficult (and generally, expensive). When it comes to providing drainage for your sloping garden ideas, 'Soakaways (essentially a hole in the ground filled with rubble) are a brilliant, sustainable option,' says Garden Designer Jonathan Martin of Living Gardens.

We've got plenty of ways to keep kids entertained outdoors in our garden activities for kids feature – head on over to take a look. The stainless-steel slide is extra wide and adds a minimal but striking feature for uber-modern gardens on a slope. This gorgeous garden includes intricate cedar-clad planters, a lawn, and angled steps. There's no need for an excuse – every sloping garden surely has to have a slide built in! It could be a colorful moulded or aluminium children's version that you bed neatly into a grassy bank, but why not go all out and choose a beautifully-crafted design that everyone can enjoy? (Image credit: Lyndon Douglas/Garden design by Eldridge London)

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