Stone retaining walls add elegance to your lawn while stabilizing sloped terrain. If you're worried about the cost, here's how to build your own on a budget.

Highlight the mellow honey tones and textures of your stone wall by opting for similar materials and colors for your garden paths and paving.

While a retaining wall is typically a utilitarian fixture that doesn't offer much visual appeal, here's how you can transform it into a vertical garden.

Dan Snow suggested the 1-2-3 rule for retaining walls. These numbers refer to the proportions of the wall: top width to bottom width to height. A 3-foot tall wall should be roughly 2 feet wide at the ...

Retaining walls cost between $1,000 and $10,000 for a typical 4-foot by 25-foot wall or around $5,500 on average. The overall costs depend on the dimensions of your particular wall, the wall style ...

Start the retaining wall with stones 12 inches deep, set against the earth bank. This layer, or course, can be any height but would typically be about 6 inches.

A stone retaining wall looks classic and natural, particularly when it s installed by a skilled stonemason. (Dreamstime) By Ap Mcclatchy | wordpress@medianewsgroup.com UPDATED: August 24, 2018 at ...

If you've never installed a stone wall, talk to an installer, watch him work or study existing walls to see how they were constructed. Take photos of old walls and copy the pattern and method as ...

The famed Monticello gardens include a 1,000-foot retaining wall, despite the fact that few farmers of the era could choose to develop hilly ground given the expensive logistics of working the slopes.