Stairways act as a means up a challanging slope and can be dramatic as well as functional. Visit an animated transformation of a dramatic double stairway...

Stairway entry natural rock garden terrace providing lots of color where it counts. Maturity of plants comes after several seasons of growth.
--Planted by the Kornkevens, of Lake Metigoshe, ND.

Natural Flagstone Stairway with rock gardens. Notice the size of these red flagstones!
--Planted by Tonya Strong, of Greeley, CO.

Large boulder saying, "Hi!" as you enter the stairway that turns sharply to the left around a flat boulder.
--Planted by Folkman's: Greeley, CO.

Tiger Face, Rosy Glow, Strata, Albino, and Stripes are guarding this stairway well as you walk up it. They also are holding the whole terrace together with their immense strength! This is only one-third of the entire terrace. What will it look like in five years? What would you plant here?

My first stairway for a customer, using only what was already laying in the yard from a stairway built thirty years previously that was torn apart.
--Planted by Mary Smith: Westminster, CO.

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