Tiered garden
Amyfeetham
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We bought our house a few years ago. The previous owners did a great job of turning the very steep garden into a tiered garden, but there’s a wall they built on the patio area which is massive and not very safe because of how high it is. I’ve wondered about chopping into it to make it into like a big step, then putting plants on the step part. But it’s nice stone so not sure if this would spoil it. Though I suppose that the stone that is removed from the top half would just form the new back wall part of the new step. It would cut into the grass tier above it too but I’m not sure by how much. Maybe 2 or 3 feet. The only other thing I can think of would be to put railings on top but I’m not sure I’d like the look of this.
Has anybody got any ideas on what we could do? I’ve attached a few photos. We’re definitely replacing the wood fencing with proper railings at some point. And I wondered about building a brick wall in front of the nasty looking concrete wall too.
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I would plant shrubs along the edge or if worried about children add a fence (and use for climbers) as you seem to have done in one of the pictures.
Cutting into the land and terracing it further seems like a lot of hard work and makes it unusable imo.
Maybe you could get someone to build on top of what is there? I'll try and find a pic. Ours drops 25' over 100' 😂
This gives the general idea at least.
In the front garden, I left a more pleasing wall but planted a small box hedge along the top edge to deter the grandchildren from falling over. I suggest you do the same, with either a row of trailing plants to hang down the wall face or a line of small plants/shrubs along the top. If its a sunny area, lavender would look good.
If you must do anything, then save yourself the hassle of dismantling part of it, and as JoeX says, plant some shrubs along the edge of it, so that people are not tempted to walk too near the edge.