A retaining wall is a concept worth integrating if your landscape has sudden variations in slope. A carefully planned retaining wall may be an eye-catching focal point for your yard and provide enormous amounts of soil with crucial structural support. Retaining walls also offer a variety of other benefits that could help turn your landscaping into a beautiful and valuable masterpiece of art.
Provide Structural Support
The purpose of retaining walls is to hold soil in place. This mainly applies to topographies or landscapes with minor slopes, where these walls are required to stop dirt from moving forward during a collapse. As a result, your landscape needs a retaining wall as a safety feature to ensure your safety and the protection of your home and other landscaping components. There are several options to choose from based on the support needed.
Provide Flood Control and Prevent Soil Erosion
Any landscape will eventually experience erosion, whether brought on by water or wind. Because of this, retaining walls are even more crucial, notably if your landscape lacks a lot of trees and bushes to keep the soil in place. Having walls aid in minimizing sharper slopes, which not only maintains the dirt but also aids in lowering surface runoff. This slows the rate water flows over the surface and minimizes erosion. Retaining walls accomplish all this while offering efficient flood control through water drainage designed to reduce floods.
Creating Usable Space in Your Backyard
While mounds and hills can be lovely in and of themselves, they frequently take up valuable space and challenge the landscape. You can expand the usable space in your backyard that you can use for planting by constructing terraces utilizing a series of retaining walls. Additionally, terracing gives your backyard a commanding and beautiful aesthetic that may be used to display various amenities, like gardens and patios.
Aesthetics
Based on their height and the type of material they are made of, retaining walls could prove to be solid and striking structures. A landscape can benefit significantly from the contrast between a stone or concrete building and the surrounding natural scenery. If constructed at the proper height, a retaining wall could also serve as a seating wall, increasing its usefulness. Your retaining wall may blend seamlessly with other aspects of your backyard thanks to the vast range of available materials, creating a stunning final product.
Minimize Potential Maintenance and Damage
As was already noted, retaining walls can assist in lessening the damage that soil erosion and flash floods can do. This can be done by blocking soil from sliding down, covering your lawn in turbid earth, or stopping a flash flood from flooding your basement and destroying your landscaping.
It is much more probable that you will be required to perform more maintenance without a retaining wall to stop these things, like fertilizing your grass to make up for the poor soil that covers it and replacing your flower beds and garden.
Contact Lamacchia Landscape Construction
If you need assistance adding or upgrading your retaining wall, get started with our team at Lamacchia Landscape Construction today.