Landscaping can become much tricker if you have a complicated outdoor slot, for example, with immovable objects or if it features an altitude difference. If your outdoor space is sloped completely or partially, don’t worry, you can always make maximum out of it. Here are some ideas to turn your slope into a focal point of your outdoor space.
Sloped Gardens
If you want to turn your slope into a garden, that would be quite easy, you just need to pick the plants that grow well on slopes. Usually, these are shrubs and grasses, groundcovers will be perfect, too. Their deep roots will keep fragile soil in place turning your slope into a fabulous bright and textural garden.
This beautiful sloped garden is inspired by Alpine landscapes, and the blooms planted are quite natural for the mountains.
The slope planted with bright blooms and grass looks like a real meadow and will give you a lot of space for enjoying fresh air.
Grasses and shrubs like these ones are perfect for a slope as they will keep soil in place and grow here comfortably.
This is a jaw-dropping example of how a slope can be styled, here it's moss, bright purple blooms, topiaries on top and a blooming cherry tree.
Terraced Gardens
If you have a small outdoor space, for example, a sloped backyard, where you want to place a lot of stuff, consider getting a terraced garden. This is a garden that is built like a staircase, with raised garden beds placed as steps. The edging can be done with various materials depending on the style of the space: with stone, concrete, wood or metal. The plants and blooms are totally up to you, and you can even make it a veggie garden. Add a terrace or a dining space next to the terraced garden or right inside it, and voila, a small slope works at its best!
A terraced garden is always a smart solution for a small slope slot, add matching raised garden beds and voila, you have a large garden.
A modern terraced garden clad with white concrete and done with greenery and purple blooms to add a bit of color.
The slope is done as a terraced garden but in a natural way, the garden beds are clad with stone and are planted with bright flowers and lush grass.
A terraced garden made with stone looks very natural, and lush greenery and blooms make it integral part of the ladscape.
Prevent any erosion covering the whole slope with stone edging and planting some simple grasses and shrubs.
This contemporary terrace garden features simple yet bright blooms and greenery and a single tree, and cladding it with concrete pavers gives it an edge.
A modern space done with white concrete, with an eye-catchy terrace garden and stairs is a lovely idea of how to get maximum of a small slot.
A rustic terrace garden with wooden garden beds and stairs can include not only blooms but also some edibles.
A stunning terraced garden with extra bold purple and orange blooms seems like a large blooming space, and the garden beds are not really seen.
A stone staircase paired with a small terrace garden and some shrubs on the other side.
A spectacular terraced garden with topiaries, trees and shrubs is a gorgeous and very polished outdoor space.
A small backyard can accommodate a living wall, a terraced garden and a terrace itself if you organize it in a smart way.
This minimalist terraced garden is done with a series of flower beds with terrazzo edge, and with lush greenery and trees.
A creative approach to a terraced garden with asymmetrical raised garden beds clad with stone, with blooms and grasses.
Rock Gardens
A rock garden is a beautiful and very practical way to naturally style a slope. A rock garden will keep soil in place, it won’t get covered with weeds, especially if plant in all the voids, or use groundcovers. A rock garden always looks spectacular, and you can imitate any mountain landscape using plants and blooms that are natural for your climate zone, from succulents to blooms. You may also skip the idea of a rock garden and stick to rock stairs, especially if you want to descend somewhere. Rock steps can also feature groundcovers, blooms and shrubs around and they will look no less cool than a rock garden making this stairs a focal point.
A bold and spectacular rock garden is perfect for a slope, add plants that can stand the climate, here you can see succulents and grasses.
This rock garden is dotted with bold blooms and some bright groundcovers to resemble a natural mountain landscape.
This hillside garden perfectly imitates a natural scenery showing off greenery and purple blooms plus some stone and stone stairs.
A sloped rock garden is a perfect way to keep fragile soil in place and avoid erosion, and it provides a beautiful look at the same time.
A sloping garden done with stone and stone steps, with bright groundcovers and greenery around looks like part of the wood behind it.
This wild-looking sloped garden features a lot of greenery and some flowers, grasses and stones, a stone staircase.
A natural-looking sloped rock garden with some greenery and bright flowers is a great addition to your outdoor space.
A sloping rock garden with bright flowers and blooming groundcovers and a large rough rock staircase looks very natural.
A colorful rock garden with succulents, bright groundcovers and some blooms on top will turn your slope into a gorgeous space.
A rock garden will help prevent soil erosion and will keep weeds away, especially if you plant much in between the rocks.
This beautiful rock garden with just some greenery and bright blooms is a stunning way to imitate a real mountain scenery.
A bright rock slope with colorful flowers and green groundcovers that keep weeds away is a lovely addition to your usual garden.
A slope with rocks and stones, a stone staircase and bold blooms, greenery and groundcovers is a full-bodied garden itself.
This bright slope garden features some rocks and a rock edge for texture, bold flowers and greenery and makes the space cooler.
Two slopes fully covered with flourishing goundcovers in yellow and lilac look amazing, this is a great landscape that is easy to make yourself.
A bright rock garden with lush greenery and flowers is a gorgeous solution for a modern garden.
A rock garden with lots of grasses and shrubs is a perfect solution as they have deep roots and can grow here comfortably.
This sloping rock garden is done with pink, lilac and red blooming groundcovers that help prevent weeds and erosion and look lovely.
Consider rocking a stone staircase instead of a rock gardne but make it fashion with green groundcovers and bold blue iris lining the steps.
A stone staircase instead of a rock garden, lined up with grasses, shrubs and blooms for a more beautiful and cool look.
Stone steps surrounded with lush greenery and some blooming shrubs look like natural part of the scenery.
Waterfalls
A waterfall can be a gorgeous alternative to gardens of any kinds, and it requires a slope, so it’s a perfect match. A water body will harmonize the space with its look and sound, and you may surround it with shrubs, blooms and grasses making it an integral and natural part of the scenery. A waterfall is always a focal point, whatever rocks you use, it will look spectacular.
A dreamy waterfall with large rocks, grasses and blooms seems a nice alternative to any slope gardens.
This lovely waterfall with rocks, groundcovers and shrubs looks all-natural and absolutely stunning.
A slope done with grass and a waterfall of stone surrounded with greenery to break the monotony of the grass sea around.
A jaw-dropping waterfall compose of rocks and decorated with succulents and groundcovers can become a focal point in any garden.
A waterfall can be a nice solution for a sloped slot, it will harmonize the space with its look and sound of falling water, and some blooms around will make it more natural.
A rock waterfall is cohesive integrated into the woodland scenery, and greenery and blooms make it catchy.
A pretty rock and stone waterfall with pebbles, greenery and grasses around is a cool idea for any slope.
A breathtaking waterfall done with faux stone, with greenery and ferns perfectly matches the woodland scenery in the backdrop.