Landscaping Walls Picture Gallery

Landscaping walls make a great addition to any yard. They add interest in all seasons. A stone garden wall has also become a very popular project for do-it-yourselfers.

Corner lot landscaping ideas like this small curved stone are a great way to add curb appeal. Adding upper and lower garden beds is a great way
to soften the wall.  
Picture compliments of a homeowner with a dream yard.

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Natural stone, brick, garden walls, and wooden walls can have different functions in our yards.

We can use them to retain, hide, compliment, divide, or decorate.

Whatever reason you have for adding a landscaping wall to your yard, this section is just one more way to show the different uses of materials available to you.

We have some great retaining wall ideas using stone, landscaping timbers and boulders.

Visit "The Yard" Landscaping How-to modules if you are planning on installing your own projects. 

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The Dream-yard Team

The large rocks and tree used here add needed height to this front yard landscaping design. A single tier of large block placement stones is another easy and effective way to landscape a small frontyard slope.   
Picture compliments of a homeowner with a dream yard.

Water feature ideas for the creative minded. The water source comes from the flagstone wall instead of a built up feature in the corner. This is brilliant designing as it allowed this commercial project to keep proportions in check,
while still giving height to this water feature.
Picture compliments of www.horticultureunlimited.com

This small sloped city property has been tamed with a retaining wall, patio, and bridge edging. The manufactured brick products provide well defined
clean lines, and accent the garden beds nicely. 
Picture compliments of Guys Hill Landscaping

This wall made with larger natural stones has creative plantings between the cracks. Decorative rocks, low maintenance shrubs and perennials
are a great way to tame small slopes.
Picture compliments of a homeowner with a dream yard.



A dry-stacked fieldstone wall in the winter. This wall adds some
interest to a northern climate with a light dusting of snow.
Picture compliments of www.stonestackers.com

Small front yard design mixing formal and informal elements. Mortared stone walls softened by random boulders and a mix of shrubs for year round color. 
Height should also be added with carefully selected and
placed trees or shrubs as shown here.
Picture compliments of a homeowner with a dream yard.



A patio with a firepit is complimented with a wall built out of very large stones. They can provide extra seating as well as make nice planters for garden beds.
Picture compliments of www.ogslandscape.ca

This low stone garden wall will accent the shrubs to be planted behind it.
The feature was added to dress up a plain entryway and hide a
nearly 2 ft. thick foundation of concrete.
Picture compliments of Dream-yard.

Beautiful corner lot landscaping with formal stone walls are inter-planted with a shrub and mulch rock garden. The upper wall encloses a lovely little patio area.
Picture compliments of a homeowner with a dream yard.

A children's play area is surrounded by this stone wall. Smaller stones require some advanced stacking techniques for stability of the wall.
Picture compliments of www.stonestackers.com

Working with the natural landscape to achieve a multi-level yard makes this yard much more interesting. Very little fill was added or removed for this project.
Picture compliments of Dream-yard.

These stone retaining walls were built using reclaimed concrete. The hedges give this driveway and home added privacy. Using reclaimed materials is a great
way to save money on materials for building walls, walkways, and paths.
Picture compliments of a homeowner with a dream yard.

Man has used free standing stone walls for dividing property as fences for thousands of years. They look beautiful and provide a solid barrier
that will never rot, rust, or decompose.
Picture compliments of www.stonestackers.com

This flagstone wall curves nicely into a set of natural stone steps.
The strength in this wall is evident in the way the stones have been stacked
by a highly skilled builder.
Picture compliments of www.goshenstonework.com

This small wall was added to eliminate having a slope that would be difficult to mow. It also allowed the homeowner to hide the concrete pillars and
cardboard tubes from the deck construction.
Picture compliments of Dream-yard.

Selecting and placing just the right stones for building corners can be a very
timely process. Sometimes it can be difficult to appreciate
what goes in to building walls like this.
Picture compliments of www.stonestackers.com

A poolside wall with a pillar are capped with flagstone. The flagstone patio
adds some contrast to the dark coloured wall stone.
Picture compliments of www.goshenstonework.com

"Placement walls", are large rock walls where specialty equipment places each stone. Less than perfect capstones provide added character to this wall.
Picture compliments of www.american-stone.com

A free standing dry-stacked stone wall with an open gateway. Unlike our ancestors collecting for many years to build a wall like this, these fieldstones can
now be purchase at stone yards (thankfully).
Picture compliments of www.stonestackers.com

These two walls were added to give balance to the front of the house with plantings on both sides. The rocks chosen match the colours shown in the
brickwork and the shingles.
Picture compliments of Dream-yard.

A patio surround made with large placement stones. The stones have also been arranged to allow for planting beds. A set of stairs lead to a
less formal upper sitting area.
Picture compliments of www.ogslandscape.ca

A free standing dry-stacked wall with nice flowing curves meanders across this property. Fieldstone walls like this are very common in New England.
Picture compliments of www.stonestackers.com

A high retaining wall is used to hold back this steep bank and expand
the useable area below it.
Picture compliments of www.goshenstonework.com

Wallstone is used here to line the driveway and support raised beds on both sides. This stone contains colours from both the house and the mulch.
Picture compliments of www.american-stone.com

This low retaining wall adds more interest to this yard with a slightly sloped backyard. Adding garden beds in and around the wall will soften it up with colour.
Picture compliments of Dream-yard.

This multi level flagstone wall with fieldstone mixed in at various spots, has tons of character. Stairs always add convenience to yards with a retaining walls.
Picture compliments of www.goshenstonework.com

This steep slope is retained with an anchored wall using landscaping timbers. Fabric was applied to the hill and decorative rocks and shrubs were planted.
The stairs add interest and allow access to the shrubs.
Picture compliments of Dream-yard.

Fieldstone walls can look good when they are tight with no gaps, or
left to have more of a rubble wall appearance like this.
Picture compliments of www.american-stone.com

Walls add character and interest all year long. This wall will be softened up as the newly planted bed in front, fills in over the next couple of years.
Picture compliments of Dream-yard.

A nice countryside stone wall provides a low fence before disappearing into the trees. Squaring off this wall can be a challenge with such rounded fieldstones.
Picture compliments of www.goshenstonework.com

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