Rock Retaining Wall Garden

Everyone loves the look of a raised garden bed.
Rock retaining wall garden. The spaces between stones in the retaining wall allow water to drain through relieving pressure. A dry stacked stone wall looks so natural. Building a retaining wall is suitable for diyers as long as the wall is a maximum of 3 feet tall in most. There are a few ways to incorporate a raised garden bed into your retaining wall project.
Terrace gardens date back to ancient times and are still a beautiful but rarely seen luxury in modern times. A collection of backyard retaining wall ideas and terraced gardens. By cutting into a slope and allowing for level ground both above and below the wall retaining walls increase the amount of flat usable ground in a yard. If you re retaining wall isn t really retaining anything important just making life easier maybe you should build a series of smaller dry rock walls no mortar or concrete and have fun planting yourself a rock garden in each one.
Retaining walls are used to create a transition from one level of ground to another. All kinds including wood rock stone brick gabion concrete low garden and more. Another advantage of dry stacked stone walls is that you can create planting pockets for small rock garden plants such as sedums. Mar 27 2017 explore doug scott s board rock wall gardens on pinterest.