Our yard slopes down to a creek. Need landscape advice.

[Anonymous]

We just bought a house with an overgrown tree and brush back yard. We hired a company to clear the brush and now that we can see it the yard slopes very sharply down to a creek bed. What is the best landscaping for that? The remaining trees give partial sun/ partial shade. I’m concerned it’s too steep to mow. What do you DCUM experts think?

[Anonymous]

Don't clear the brush w/o a plan in place bc you'll have an erosion problem. Plant trees and get a landscaper. How did you not know this before buying?

[Anonymous]

OP here. The plan is developing. Have you bought a house recently? It’s a struggle.

[Anonymous]

Clear only what you intend to use. If you don't intend to use it, leave it alone. If you do clear space to use the yard, make sure when you clear, you check the current vegetation to make sure that there are plants along the edge of the cleared space that are designed to hold the ground together, things that have good root systems. If you aren't sure, consider getting landscapers to help you pick out good erosion control plants to plant in the area to help strengthen the area. And you probably want to plant some type of border trees/shrubs to keep people from crossing the border between domesticated and undomesticated areas. The more traffic, the more likely you'll cause erosion in the area that makes it unsafe.

[Anonymous]

Not very many people in the DCUM area have extra land they are not using.

[Anonymous]

Generally: https://www.plantnovanatives.org/erosion-control

Specifically: Hibiscus mosheutose, Iva frutescens, Bouteloua dactyloides, Bouteloua gracilis,