When working with landscape contractors to beautify your outdoor spaces, they may recommend installing retaining walls. Often made of stone, brick, or concrete, they can have both form and function within a garden. If you’ve never thought about this option before, here is a closer look at some of the benefits.

Reasons to Incorporate Retaining Walls Into Outdoor Designs

1. Functional Support

Not every landscape is perfectly flat and ready for planting trees and shrubs. Instead of investing time and effort into leveling certain areas, retaining walls allow you to work with the natural patterns of your surroundings. As a result, you reclaim space that wasn't as usable before, while also gaining some of the same safety features as a fence.

2. Visual Dynamics

When designing a landscape, consider more than the greenery being planted. Hardscaping by adding paths and retaining walls is a unique way to create a visually appealing outdoor area. Once in place, you’ll want to spend even more time in the garden.

3. Orderly Place for Shrubs & Flowers

A major component of cohesive landscape design is mapping out where to put shrubs, flowers, and trees so that they have their place to shine and thrive. A retaining wall you with a way to organize plant life and can restrict people and animals from walking on delicate leaves and buds. This can keep plants alive longer and helps you maintain your garden with less effort. 

Eliot's Landscape has been providing residents and commercial business owners throughout Spring Branch, Canyon Lake, and New Braunfels, TX, with top-notch lawn care for over 20 years. If you’re looking for a team of creative, dependable landscape contractors that are well-versed in maintaining gardens and installing uniquely beautiful hardscape elements like retaining walls, call today at (800) 379-6079 to schedule a consultation. To view examples of work they have done in the past, visit their website.