However, you can use brick, natural stone, like quarried ... Building a stackable retaining wall is a beginner-friendly DIY but it has a few key steps. First, you need to plan your layout.

Natural stone retaining walls cost $56 per square ... "Features such as built-in seating, raised garden beds, planters, retaining wall steps, and sitting areas can be incorporated into a retaining ...

A garden wall is a type of retaining wall that encloses a garden. Also called a screen wall, it’s often used as a device to create a tiered or terraced garden. A garden wall is not a structure ...

In rural Japan, where I live, stone retaining walls shape a country that’s 80 percent mountainous into livable and farmable land. To get into town from my home, I walk past century-old stone walls.

At least, it used to. If the crew at ETH is successful, building stone retaining walls will soon become a “set it and forget it” task for robots to complete. Robots like their HEAP excavator.

Though wood retaining walls have a shorter lifespan than stone, brick, steel and other solid materials, they offer a stylish appearance that some homeowners look for in a retaining wall.