Hill is about 10' high and 50' wide. It is so steep that it is hard to walk up. A long-flowering perennial, or a low self-spreading decorative grass would be preferred. The soil is bad... rocky and clay...typical for North Carolina.
2007-01-11 07:55:09 · 3 answers · asked by joe 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Stella de Oro’ or ‘Black Eyed Stella’.
2007-01-12 14:52:47 · update #1
an english ivy
some kind of moss
honey suckle
morning glories
2007-01-11 16:04:15 · answer #1 · answered by cyndi b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is a website. It is not exactly what you want, but it does show your Extension Service has experts there to help you. Contact your county extension agent, it is his job to help you with this problem.
Finding the extension agent in the phone book is tricky......try Dept of Ag, or your State University. If you call information ask for North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service for XXX county....whereever you live.
You may have to put down an erision mat and then plants through the mat. Maybe hydroseeding will suffice. Type plants will be those with fibrous roots such as grasses and small forbs, crown vetch for example (but I suspect crown vetch might be outlawed as it can become a weed...think like kudzu). Eventually shrubs.
http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/publicat/wqwm/130/
2007-01-11 08:10:42 · answer #2 · answered by fluffernut 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Crown vetch is a long flowering and fast spreading perennial but check with your county extension agent as crown vetch is considered invasive in some areas. In Indiana it dies out in the winter but that might not be the case in NC. Also, spreading phlox but in my experience it takes quite a while to spread. would be a shorter bloom time but great to keep down weeds and is evergreen in Indiana.
2007-01-11 08:22:13 · answer #3 · answered by sw-in-gardener 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋