Does your retaining wall need a makeover? Try adding various species of trailing plants to cascade over the side, bringing color and life to your bland wall.

A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks ... In rural Japan, where I live, stone retaining walls shape a country that’s 80 percent mountainous into livable and farmable land.

Natural stone retaining walls cost $56 per square foot ... It's best to build a retaining wall in a dry season, usually from late spring to early fall. The ground needs to be dry.

Dry stone wall construction typically involves ... 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.

dry stone wall construction has involved vast amounts of manual ... of a freestanding stone wall (10 meters by 1.7 meters by 4 meters) and a permanent retaining wall (65.5 meters by 1.8 meters by 6 ...

With few expert dry stone wallers in Northern California ... used to make a variety of stone structures from steps and retaining walls to patios. Moné is using rip-rap strength stone from ...

A four-mile (7km) dry stone wall is being built to help a major new commuter road blend into its Cotswolds surroundings. Twelve stonemasons have already spent a year constructing the wall ...

The practice of dry stone wall construction in Ireland has been added to UNESCO's list of protected cultural heritages around the world. Dry stone walls are an iconic part of many Irish landscapes ...