Having now visited five out of eight, I continued to marvel at how perfectly groomed they all were for tour day: No weedy bits around the edges, every plant deadheaded and dead-leafed (any unsightly leaf removed). When you have a hillside that frames a view of your house, you want it to remain attractive year-round. Dirt Locker protects your entire hillside from nature’s destructive elements and creates organized sections in your yard. Runoff is one of the biggest challenges with hillside gardens and even more so when the slope runs off into the driveway, where soil can settle. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited.

Dirt Locker: The first hillside planter is our Dirt Locker system - a hillside terracing and erosion control system that locks your plants into the hill with stabilizing force. The benefit to retaining walls is they divide your landscape into sections which can be beneficial to plants on a slope. You can see in the front, the beds are almost two feet, and by the time you reach the backs, they’re barely 6 inches off the ground. I like planter boxes because they are very easy to access from all sides, and all you need is wood and nails to build them. Homeowners, beginning gardeners, and especially seasoned women like myself are sure to find this product to be a dream come true.Dirt Locker® is committed to green living by creating environmentally responsible solutions to help solve erosion, while at the same time creating sustainable gardens on once unusable land.

Use it to make a feature wall, for dressing garden paths, separating sections of the garden, or providing support to climbing plants and flowers to create an idyllic garden sanctuary. Although they are a lot of work initially, once they are in place, you have a functional and attractive structure. So turn a tough hillside flower bed into a beautiful planting by selecting easy-care groundcover plants for slopes that root into the bank wherever their stems touch soil. Since stone tends to heat up early in the spring and hold heat at night, you are creating a microclimate that will allow you to grow plants that would not survive in other areas of your yard.A dry-stack stone wall and mortared stone steps join a small pool house and spa set at different levels in the landscape.