Designing my sloping garden

Hi T.D.

As Zigs pointed out you have to place a certain amount of posts on GC before you can upload pictures. Your problem has nothing to do with donations. Although they are very welcome they are not compulsory. Could your pictures be to big..... 800 x 600 is the approximate size you will need but GC's set up will alter them if they are slightly over or under this.

 

You need more posts. I've seen this on other forums, where they have a specific thread to post to just to get up the the required number of posts - Zigs perhaps a similar thread on this forum?

In terms of your sloping rear garden - I have placed some railway sleepers half way back from the rear boundary. The garden is now tiered - with two flat areas. The rear soil from the rear section was used to raise the front of the front section - if this makes sense - to get two level areas.

The railway sleepers are resting on a bed of cement and are held in place by wooden stakes driven into the ground.

Cheaper than a brick built retaining wall and IMO blends well into the garden.

My conservatory overlooks the first tier (so I try to plant annuals) and the rear is lawned to accommodate the garden furniture etc.

 

How do I get more "posts"?

When I get some response (get my pics. posted) I'll make a donation. In the meantime I seem to be stuck. As I have said before I have never had any problem attaching my docs./pics. to any other email I've sent.

 

You've 2 more posts to go before you're allowed to post pictures so just make two random posts anywhere on the site.

 

For "posts" read replies to a thread on the forum. Just send a couple of messages to this thread (they don't have to make sense) and then you will be able to put up the pics.

 

Thanks kindredspirit. Now I understand although it seems a bit daft to have reply gobbledegook to other peoples questions just to make up a number. Hope this counts as one post and now I just have to send someone else a daft reply. Once again thanks to you and all of the others who have helped me.

 

one different thing with a slop garden, you more or less have to do a reverse height plan. As shorter can be on top of the slop and taller near the front. I like the floppy small shrubs myself.

 

Thank you Redstar. That a useful piece of advice. Now I have 10 posts I am going to try again to attach some pics. Hope you can supply more good ideas for my slopping plot.

 

Well. I've now got 10 posts but I still can't upload pics. I'll have to wait until I've got the right advice to do it. In the meantime I would be grateful for planting advice. Think I might have a border all the way around the outside with grass in the middle and maybe a tree or two. What do you think.
A further discovery concerning uploading pics. Whilst logged onto Gardeners Corner I am barred access to all of my files both pics and docs. Strange or what?

 

before I planted my slope I revamped the soil. Rented a rotatiller (spelling) and bags of manure and peat as the soil was more like clay. And preceded to lay out bags of both, then hit the slop with the tiller. Gravity helped on the downward motion. So, you could start there at least, if you need. If your planning on putting in bulbs. Put in all the shrubs and plants first then the bulbs. Do you have a theme? perhaps you want to plant only things that birds and butterflies will be attracted to? These plantings can be found on line easy, to get a list.

 

Thanks again redstar. More good advice. Had intended to enrich the soil which I suspect is very poor. Though its black in colour I know that there is a thick layer of clay below it. Don't yet know about the acidity. Will have to get a test kit. Only have a few rough ideas about the theme so far but nothing is firm so please feel free to make suggestions..

 

I'd prefer grass around the edges with Island Beds. (That's if you like grass).
Personally, I'd have NO grass.

80cm in 4.5 metres isn't a steep slope so I wouldn't apply the same criteria to it as I would to a steep slope.