I'm on a budget and need to landscape a dry hillside. What will be affordable but also look nice and be easy to maintain?
2006-08-18 15:46:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Look into Ceanothus, sage (some are ornamental but do well with little water or decent soil), a lot of succulent ground covers work well, too. Western Garden is a good resource to look up plants you're contemplating. Good luck
2006-08-18 16:21:22 · answer #1 · answered by Alex62 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rosemary. About $1.50 for a 2 gallon pot, give it a few years, and it'll cover the whole hillside with a two foot tall shrub of pine-scented needles and occasional blue flowers. The needles make a great seasoning for pork and redskin potatoes too.
2006-08-19 02:26:10 · answer #2 · answered by ye_river_xiv 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whenever I wanted to look for plants for shade, drought resistant, sunny areas, clay soil, etc., etc. I would use the Sunset Gardening Book found at most Garden Nursery's or any well known bookstore. It tells you the climate zone you live in, which helps to buy the right plants right from the start. Then it has a section for sunny areas, shade, etc and what plants grow well in in these trouble spots that are in your zone. It's my gardening bible. It even shows you how to lay out plants for the most pleasing artistic effect and other very useful information. Good luck!
2006-08-19 02:05:35 · answer #3 · answered by Inquisitive 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cactus
2006-08-18 22:52:13 · answer #4 · answered by puma 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on the angle of the slope and your gardening zone, you can grow daylillies, creeping thymes (wooly thyme is a good one), low growing sedums and other succulents, perennial cranesbill (Johnson's blue is quite tough, at least I can't kill it) and achillea (yarrow) are just a few.
2006-08-19 17:50:20 · answer #5 · answered by Garfield 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you looked into ground coverings you dont have to worry about mowing or anything and they dont need alot of water or dirt, they have a wide variety out there and from the flower typ to just a vine type?
2006-08-22 22:48:59 · answer #6 · answered by BRIAN J R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my parents lived on a hill and had rose moss on the side of their hill you can mow over it when you want and it provides little colored flowers that give it a nice look
2006-08-18 22:52:55 · answer #7 · answered by christy b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wild flowers.
2006-08-18 22:57:10 · answer #8 · answered by whataboutme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yucca and iceplant work well. Pretty much any succulents.
2006-08-18 22:52:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
periwinkle
2006-08-19 05:07:13 · answer #10 · answered by bill j 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋