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DIY Landscape - No Retaining Wall or Curb Necessary

This DIY landscape design will focus on what to do with slopes and along drives - using no curbs or retaining wall structures. This images shows the first spring after removal of a rotten wood tie retaining wall, and digging out a huge amount of invasive English Ivy and Winter Creeper.
DYI Landscape - No Retaining Wall or Curb Necessary
The first year planted a small Rainier Cherry Tree and a series of small perennials. Planted several sedums and creeping phlox to cover the hill, with a few small shrubs - gold flame spirea. No need for a small retaining wall, just taper the soil and plant and mulch to avoid erosion for the first...
DYI Landscape - No Retaining Wall or Curb Necessary
Year one identified that even with a 12 feet wide paved drive, visitors would often drive right over the plants. Rather than add more expensive and unattractive curbs that can damage tire side walls, granite boulders were added to notify poor drivers that they are off the pavement, and thus...
DYI Landscape - No Retaining Wall or Curb Necessary
Year 2 - a May "snowfall" of Black Locust tree seeds occurs each spring. I have really come to love these trees that provide a dappled sun/shade mix.
DYI Landscape - No Retaining Wall or Curb Necessary
Year 3 - Plants start to fill in.
DYI Landscape - No Retaining Wall or Curb Necessary
Year 4 - moved some spirea and let the creeping phlox expand.
DYI Landscape - No Retaining Wall or Curb Necessary
By year 5 the sedums fill the slope around the granite boulders. Compact growing limits weed growth.
DYI Landscape - No Retaining Wall or Curb Necessary