With innovative hillside landscape ideas, such as terraced beds and low-maintenance plants, you can make the most of a sloped ...

What impressed me the most when I visited Gary Thompson’s garden in Meridian was his smart use of elevation. The shady space ...

Slopes change a gardener's perspective. No flat lawns and meandering paths, but inclines and declines on which it can be difficult to stand, dig or weed and where plant choices seem more precarious.

A proposal to add steps to the east slope of Baltimore’s Federal Hill ran into opposition from neighbors and the founder of the American Visionary Art Museum, who argued the stairs would draw ...