The Hillside Garden designed by SED DESIGN is a feature project in an upcoming film on creating sustainable landscapes.

The Hillside Garden’s outdoor living spaces and gardens are terraced on a hillside outside of Philadelphia overlooking the Whitemarsh Valley. The design is a model for managing stormwater in creative ways that engage people while cleansing our water supply and recharging our aquifers.   Rain water is captured in a garden runnel that flows through the garden wall and cascades into the water garden below.   Overflow from the water garden flows through the vegetated swale and infiltrates into the soil below where it is filtered and cleansed by the roots and microbes contained in the soil.