This class on Saturday is a little spendy ($90, including lunch), but I've always wanted to build a stone wall across the front yard. Haven't you? A talk on the ancient art of dry stack stone ...

One easy, low-maintenance style of outdoor wall is a dry-stacked stone wall, which requires little more than a collection of stones in different sizes and shapes.

Chris Randles of Athyrium Stone and Garden offers advice on incorporating a rock wall into your garden.

A recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece was headlined “Paving Paradise.” There were reports last month, amplified by a group opposed to key elements of the project, that artist and designer ...

Q: Tim, I read a column on your website about rock retaining walls. I’m having a hard time believing you can build a lasting wall and not use mortar between the stones. I’d love to just build ...

For those homeowners who feel au naturel is the way to go, real stone affords a beautiful, substantial and timeless garden or retaining wall or even a flower bed border.

Ledge stone This popular profile consists of rectangular-shaped stone veneers of a similar size, stacked to create a natural-looking feature with prominent horizontal definition (hence the ledge).

There is an infrastructure design trend unfolding in Greater Victoria that is creating ticking time bombs. I’m referring to the increasing use of one-metre-cube-sized boulders in large stacked ...

A stacked stone wall relies on its own weight and the friction between the stones to hold back the soil. Larger stones typically work best, however.