#2 · jul 19, 2012 (edited) if you have to raise or lower the level of the land around a tree, chances are you will kill the tree.

Front yard slopes toward house. My front yard downslopes towards my house. In your situation, with paving along the perimeter of your home, there would be two types. Remove the concrete and put in a smaller patio.

My husband and i just bought our house last nov. Our yard slopes generally toward the house, but near the foundation we've graded away from the house so water collects in essentially a trough that is directed toward the side. Fill in the front section with lower.

Okay, so terrible pun, but the way this person used rocks to create a flat spot in their sloping yard for a small patio deserves recognition. Add a french drain system about 10' off the house and sloping toward the right (not left) side. It's only a small (ish) garden, so would it be worth taking out a load of the soil so it slopes away.

When the lowest point of your property is against the side of your www.reddit.com. Our front garden is quite high and slopes down towards the house. Put a hedge up at the top and you'd.

Landscaping front yard slope frontyard. These homeowners live near a wooded lot that slopes down toward their yard and house. The reduction in square footage would bring down.

As long as you don't have problems with water collecting near the house, having the front yard slope up to the street sounds cool. Becoming a rock (et) man. This sloped yard has the best of both worlds: