Hillsides

Managing hillsides can seem like a challenge, but careful grading of paths, patios, and stairs can create opportunities for exploration, views, and garden habitats where native plants and wildlife thrive.

A lush steep shady hillside planted with california native plants, with a narrow stone stairway for access.
California native plants in a chaparral scrub community with green grey foliage.
A lush hillside planted with california native plants and colorful pink flowers.
A lush steep hillside planted with california native plants, with a tan natural stone stairway for access.
A steep hillside terraced with natural dry stacked stone walls and decomposed granite pathways, with flagstone landings and tan stone landscape steps.
A sloped residential garden with timber tie steps and grey gravel pathways with colorful flowering orange, pink, purple, and red california native plants.
A sloped residential garden with timber tie steps and grey gravel pathways with colorful flowering orange, pink, purple, and red california native plants. A wood railing and raised vegetable beds on the upper terrace.
A newly planted hillside with redwood bark mulch and california native plants.
A mature native hillside with california native plant chaparral community for erosion control in a residential front garden.
Wood timber tie steps up a terraced hillside with dry stacked moss rock stone walls and california native plants.
Wood timber tie steps in an organic curve with mulch and california native plants on a residential hillside.

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