Modern Garden Design Ideas with a Retaining Wall
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Big Rock Landscaping
This modern front yard is a brilliant example of the design and installation skills of Big Rock Landscaping.
June Scott Design
Rock outcroppings make a striking background for new lounge areas in this compact Los Angeles hillside garden. Working with the attributes of the site, we added native plants to drape over the stone, and converted hollowed stone planters into a firepit and water feature. New built-in seating and a cozy hammock complete the relaxing space, and dramatic lighting makes it come alive at night.
Photo by Martin Cox Photography.
Techo-Bloc
This retaining wall design is inspired by our Raffinato Wall. The smooth look of the Raffinato collection brings modern elegance to your tailored spaces. The 90mm high and 180mm high versions are packaged separately, allowing for a modular or completely linear design. This contemporary double-sided retaining wall is offered in an array of modern colors. This wall can be used to retain earth against erosion, create raised patios or subtly separate spaces with a blade wall. Raffinato is part of the dry cast collection. Check out our website to shop the look!
Hayes Landscape Design Services
The improvements included regrading and adding steps, a seatwall, lower maintenance plantings with year round interest, lighting, and a lawn perfect for kicking the soccer ball.
FormLA Landscaping
This built-in bench provides ample seating, matches the home's sorrel trim, and provides protection from the garden's signifiant level change. California native grasses border the patio, adding greenery that makes the seat color pop.
Photo: Lesly Hall Photography
Premier Lawncare & Landscape, LLC
The wall is constructed. Now, we just need to finish back-filling and grade the area behind the wall.
Painted Fern Garden Design
The existing garden had an ideal seating area in the back left corner to catch the evening sun. Unfortunately, it wasn’t particularly welcoming as it was overgrown with ivy and under an overhanging conifer. This coupled with an area of slippery, rotten decking was not a space the clients wanted to spend lots of time in.
They were looking to create a naturalistic garden to sit in, whilst sharing the space with any wildlife we could encourage in. In order to future-proof the garden, changes in level needed to be kept to a minimum. Having a pet cat, careful consideration needed to be given to the choice of plants, to be both beneficial to wildlife, and wherever possible, non-toxic to cats.
At the heart of the new garden sits a pond, with water one of the best ways of encouraging wildlife in. The turf was planted with pockets of early flowering Camassia and Fritillaria bulbs and allowed to grow long until the foliage had died right back, and over time hopefully encouraging in further species to create meadow strips.
The plant selection included Buddleja, Geranium, Nepeta, Rosemary, Sedum and Thyme, which offered something for butterflies, honeybees, hoverflies, bee-flies and long-tongued bees. A small tree, Malus ‘Admiration’ was selected for its ability to attract bees, beneficial insects and butterflies with its nectar and pollen rich flowers whilst providing a food source for birds and caterpillars. A Salix gracilistyla ‘Mount Aso’ was positioned next to the pond, and along with Hellebores, these provided a welcome early source of food for queen bumblebees and solitary mining bees.
Two seating areas were built. One was integrated into a dry-stone wall built using Purbeck stone, which in time, would create a home for various inhabitants. The second was a bug hotel. Attention was also given to hedgehogs by creating a series of hedgehog holes between the neighbouring four gardens and a hedgehog home.
A combination of autumn brown sandstone for the two patio areas was teamed with matching square setts to create a sweeping curved path linking the different spaces within the garden. The timber used for both benches and the pergola was Western Red Cedar which was allowed to silver over time. A hand thrown Cretan urn was displayed in a feature area viewed from both the house and the seating areas.
Ginkgo Leaf Studio
We collaborated with the architect of the home to design the poured concrete retaining wall.
Renn Kuhnen Photography
Zaremba & Company
A retaining wall of Corten steel slices through the vegetation to create a striking juxtaposition of textures as well as a clear delineation between public and private space.
Photo by George Dzahristos.
Modern Garden Design Ideas with a Retaining Wall
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