With innovative hillside landscape ideas, such as terraced beds and low-maintenance plants, you can make the most of a sloped ...

One of the most cost-effective and dramatic improvements you can make in your landscape is to define your planting beds with retaining walls. Landscape walls can “tie together” your foundation ...

Curb appeal is the first impression visitors get when arriving at your home. And while a lush green lawn and a picket fence aren't for everyone, ensuring your landscaping is clean and fresh is the key ...

Retaining walls were first created to perform the simple and necessary task of holding back earth. And with good reason: Erosion is a natural process, but when it means soil being washed off your ...

Garden retaining walls should, it seems, be made out of stone. By its very nature, stone is at ease in the garden; stone walls have a strength and soft irregularity that embrace and guide a garden ...

Robert Thorson stands atop a wall of lichen-covered stones, round ones upon square ones upon flat ones. Miles and miles of such walls stretch across Connecticut’s landscape like the seams of a ...

And if you're not convinced yet, landscape designer Amy Hovis, principal and owner of Eden Garden Design in Austin shared the ...

By harvesting simple rock from local farms and property, a Massachusetts craftsman slices them, grinds them and finishes them ...

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