Absolutely. I see a narrow retaining wall at the top with flowers. Then some steps down to a larger area for a garden. Then maybe more flowers? Having a deck overlooking a garden would be so nice!
I also like the idea of maybe having a fire pit if you don't want the whole thing to be garden.
Edit to add: You could even bury a shipping container in the hill for your shed! Check out this thread that started later today!
We just did one of these. Small ornamental pond, couple hundred gallons, fed by submersible pump in the lake. Turn it on, and the pond creates a literal river down the hill into the lake. Turn it off and you have a dry riverbed. Works either way. Planted bog plants all around it, looks incredible.
Unironically my roommate spent like $500 last time we went to Apple Bees. It was hilarious. He bought several drinks for the whole bar. He was feeling quite generous. Cause you know, Applebees.
Hell, I get downvoted to crap in the subs I usually participate in, then I end up here with hobbyists and I'm appreciated!! I'll take some pics and DM you eventually.
Me too!! My yard is super steep, and I have no idea what to do with it. I have a river that flows by at the very end of the yard, but that's quite far from the house. The property is close to one acre. Of hill :(
The submersible pump is in the main lake at the bottom, and feeds to a small ornamental pond and cascades down the yard. The "bog plants" are just wet soil tolerant plants and they are all around everywhere - anywhere the soil was wet. You really have to add water hungry plants because a water feature like this will keep the ground very wet.
I'm using it as a coloquial term to mean wet loving plants. I'm not meaning it as anything specific. Idk how other landscape people reference them, but I've always used "bog plant" to mean wet soil survivor
Make room for one terrace "step" to be deep so so you can have some functional yard space for seating, firepits, grilling. Then, make the upper/lower tiers gardens. Now you're lounging in garden too.
I would never have a pond or waterfall again. Insect and moss breeding factory. We had a 4-5’ deep koi pond (I called it the “drowning pond”) and a small waterfall. Black flies bred in the nooks and crannies on the waterfall, and the bottom of the pond was full of leaves and eventually huge mats of algae. Mosquito fish took care of the mosquitoes, but the flies were a problem. It stunk, also, especially when cleaning leaves out. The pump would get clogged. It was a pain in the ass to haul the pump out, wash it off and get it unstuck, then back in the pond. Made your hands, arms, etc smell like dirty pond water. It also used around 150 watts electricity, constantly. If I didn’t run it all the time, the algae came faster. The sound was nice, but the maintenance, risk, smell, etc. was not.
I was incredibly happy to see the pond torn out when we put a swimming pool in instead.
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u/ck1opinion 4d ago
Terrace.