With innovative hillside landscape ideas, such as terraced beds and low-maintenance plants, you can make the most of a sloped or hilly yard. A sloped yard doesn’t have to be a landscaping challenge.

A: One challenge many homeowners face with landscaping steep slopes is soil runoff. The topsoil on hills can easily wash off, leaving an unattractive and muddy mess.

Trying to grow grass and keep it mowed on a steep bank is a difficult proposition. Trimming or mowing under varying conditions, including slippery and wet ones, is inviting an accident to happen ...

Hillside gardening requires a little more of the gardener: more attention to safety, more specialized techniques for stabilizing the slope, and in many cases, more money. It may sound exhausting, b… ...

There's a beautiful Forest Park home on Longhill St., overlooking the South End Bridge and the Connecticut River whose owner completely stripped the hillside below a few years ago; I presume to ...

Most people can't see the majority of Kootenai County's hillsides from town, so the County Commission said it sees no need to stop people from building on steep slopes to protect the views. The ...