Beginner Gardening: Need landscape design help with very difficult property, 0 by zazosmom

zazosmom wrote:
I really need help! We have just finished building our mountain home and I am overwhelmed with the prospect of landscaping it. We have a sheer cliff wall in the back and not much better in the front. I have found a design for steps to access the front door but I am at a loss as to what to do with that bank out front. There is no way this could be mowed so I need some thing that covers the bank. I really don't want the whole thing covered in groundcover...would prefer a mulched garden look with low growing evergreens or something. But the bank is so enormous that I can't envision that either. In this picture, you are only seeing the top of the bank...it actually runs 40 feet from the flat spot on top until it gets level again. Please give me your suggestions...pics would be great. We are on the north side of the mountain in central PA.

Thansk!
Michelle