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Having sloped land on your property can be challenging, especially in Florida. The rainy weather coupled with a sloped yard is a recipe for soil erosion issues. Luckily, retaining walls can help immensely with this. Retaining walls are a decorative way to add something completely functional to your property. They add usable space to your property, allow the soil in your garden beds to stay put even when it rains, and they even help prevent chemicals from your fertilizer from running off into nearby bodies of water.

Use a retaining wall to stabilize soil and add usable space to your property.

Having a sloped property means that you have limited landscape design options. Many features like patios and garden beds cannot be placed on uneven land, mainly because of the erosion issues that are present. Adding a retaining wall will take care of the erosion issues by holding your soil in place. From there, you have many different landscape design options for your newly flattened space! For example, you can add a new patio, which can then serve as the base for many different creative outdoor living area designs. Once you lay a patio, you can add a table and chairs for...

While retaining walls and seating walls may seem similar at first glance, they are actually very different and serve two different purposes. Retaining walls can help reduce soil erosion, they can add usable flat space to properties that are built on a slope, and you can even add a raised planter bed to them to increase their aesthetic appeal.

Seating walls on the other hand are designed to provide extra seating space to guests. They can be built around fire pits or outdoor kitchens to provide convenient seating. In addition to their functionality, they also will enhance the aesthetics of your property. If you can't decide which option is right for you, here are some more details about them to help you choose what suits your outdoor space best!

Retaining Walls Address Erosion Issues & More

If your property faces severe issues with soil erosion, a retaining wall is the option that you'll need. Retaining walls are structures that are designed to hold the soil in place and prevent it from eroding. Installing a retaining wall will also increase the usable space on your property by flattening out areas that were once sloped. What's more, you can even add...

If you are considering a retaining wall for your property in Palmetto, Parrish, Bradenton, or the nearby areas of Florida, it may be for one of a few reasons. People often opt to install retaining walls for decorative purposes, to add extra seating around their outdoor spaces, or to prevent erosion on their property.

Learn more about the different types of retaining walls, the process behind installing them, and how long you can expect them to last.

Design Retaining Walls: Create Property Borders or Raised Planter Beds

A design, or decorative retaining wall, can be used for a few reasons, but the most popular reasons we often see are to create borders around someone's property or to build raised planter beds. Raised planter beds can add a new dimension to the overall design of your landscape, too. For a really interesting look, consider a terraced landscape bed with multiple retaining walls.

Typically, these walls are not too high. We can build them with interlocking wall blocks, pavers, or other options that present a myriad of color choices. Any of those options last for at least 50 years or more, making them a sound investment.