Nobody enjoys wrestling with a steep lawn. Transform this hillside with terraced planting beds along rough stone stairs rather than turf grass. For year-round texture and color, fill the tiers with ...

On October 29, Hillside House hosted its Fall Garden Party to introduce the nonprofit, a residential facility for 59 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It also informed guests ...

The goal with the hillside is to give us some privacy while eating, but not so much it looks like a wall of vegetation. (Marcia Westcott Peck) Hillsides have played a major role in military history.

Hillside gardening requires a little more of the gardener: more attention to safety, more specialized techniques for stabilizing the slope, and in many cases, more money. It may sound exhausting, but ...

BEER-MAKING and cranberry drying are regular activities at Dave Flotree and Ellen Hauptmann’s place in suburban Innis Arden. The couple use every inch of their two-thirds-of-an acre hillside to grow ...

Once upon a time, the part of Belmont defined by the intersection of the railroad tracks and Blanchard Road was known as Hill’s Crossing. In some circles, it was also called Little Italy. When the ...

Suma Landscaping has swept up some big wins lately from the North Coast chapter of the California Landscape Contractors Association. The full-service landscaping construction firm (sumalandscaping.com ...

When Esther Hayden moved into her Seven Oaks home in 1990, the hillside in her backyard — similar to many found throughout Rancho Bernardo — had mostly ground cover and was spotted with a few trees.