Rock Retaining Wall Garden

Using retaining walls to create raised garden beds is a great way to accomplish a task while making it look good.

Rock retaining wall garden.

A collection of backyard retaining wall ideas and terraced gardens. The spaces between stones in the retaining wall allow water to drain through relieving pressure. Building a retaining wall is suitable for diyers as long as the wall is a maximum of 3 feet tall in most. Another advantage of dry stacked stone walls is that you can create planting pockets for small rock garden plants such as sedums.

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. Everyone loves the look of a raised garden bed. There are a few ways to incorporate a raised garden bed into your retaining wall project. A dry stacked stone wall looks so natural.

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. Terrace gardens date back to ancient times and are still a beautiful but rarely seen luxury in modern times. Imagine enhancing a bed s look with a handsome stone brick timber or concrete retaining wall.