12 Stunning Plants For Your Steep Slopes

 Stunning plants for your steep slopes



If you are looking for landscaping plants for steep slopes, check out 12 amazing plants today. They are perfect for landscaping purposes as an alternative to traditional grass lawns. In addition, they will build retaining walls to retain your soil. Like a well-designed house with a floor covered with nice carpets and rugs, your garden will look great when you grow these plants as ground cover to cover the empty ground.


1 Japanese Yew


Japanese Yew grows well in planting zones 4 to 7, reaching a height of 2.5 feet and a width of 9 feet. This will produce red berries.


2 roses


Underground roses are one of the best solutions for steep hills. Most of them perform well in zones 5 to 11 and can reach heights of about 3-feet. They are easy to grow with very little care.


3 Vinca



Vinca is aggressive and works well in zones 4 to 8. It loves the sun and tolerates little shade.


4 English Ivy


English Ivy grows well in zones 4 to 9 and can reach 80-feet in length and 50-feet in width. It is a shade-loving plant and produces small greenish-white flowers in autumn.


5 Daylilies


Daylilies zones 3 to 10 work best. Although each flower lasts one day, its flowering time lasts from late spring to late summer.


6 Hellebore



Daylilies zones 3 to 10 work best. Although each flower lasts one day, its flowering time lasts from late spring to late summer.


7 Creeping juniper


This evergreen shrub grows well in rocky soils in zones 3 to 9. It does not bloom, but its scaly foliage grows by sending long posterior branches, which make it an excellent choice for covering steep hills.


8 Rockrose


Rockrose is a drought-tolerant plant that grows in zones 4 to 9. In May, it produces beautiful flowers with five paper-thin petals that will last a day but will produce new ones until mid-summer. It prefers to grow in sun, sandy, and rocky soils.


9 Coneflower



Coneflower works well in zones 5 to 8. In summer, it shows flowers in different colors like daisies.


10 Dwarf Coyote Bush


The dwarf coyote bush thrives in zones 8 to 10. In autumn, the male produces yellow flowers on this dioecious plant, leaving the female white flowers and eventually fruiting.


11 Dwarf Forsythia


The plant grows in 5 to 8 zones and is 3 feet high and about 7 feet wide. In early spring, it produces yellow flowers. When planting this on steep hills, keep in mind that the flowers should be destroyed as soon as they are spent, otherwise the plant will not bloom again.


12 California Pink



California pink grows well in zones 7 to 11 and reaches a height of 8 feet. In June, it blooms in blue to deep purple-pink-like flowers.

Location: United States

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