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Thinking About Retaining Walls for Your Yard?
Most people don’t immediately think of retaining walls when they start redesigning their space. That is, not until they desperately need them.
The hills in your backyard might be slipping and sliding right along with your kids playing in the sprinkler. The more sleds that go down your hills, the more an avalanche of soil comes toward your home’s foundation. Every summer thunderstorm can easily turn into a flooded basement. Displaced soil can cause uneven ground all around your yard, and when it comes to your foundation, that spells bad news.
There’s a simple solution to grading or erosion issues in your lawn—and it’s a solution that can be both functional and beautiful! With a decorative retaining wall, you’ll bring style to your yard and security to your home and foundation.

Retaining Walls Don’t Have to Be Eyesores
Everything You Need to Update and Protect Your Lawn
Your Design for Your Needs
Whether you need a heavy-duty retaining wall to prevent erosion or smaller walls for your garden, Torchwood Landscaping will help you design the right retaining wall for your needs—a design that gets the job done and looks good while doing it.
Safety and Quality of the Highest Standard
A retaining wall isn’t worth anything if it doesn’t work or isn’t safe. Our Torchwood team follows the National Concrete Masonry Association guidelines when we build your retaining walls. That way, you can be confident in your new retaining wall and know that it’s protected from water erosion or other damage—and your home and its foundation are protected, too.
5-Year Warranty
All Torchwood hardscapes, including decorative retaining walls, include our 5-year warranty. If anything breaks or goes wrong, we’ll fix it, no questions asked.
Your Decorative Retaining Wall Could Feature
- Natural Stone
- Geogridding
- Blocked, Stacked, or Curved Walls
Create the Outdoor Space You Want—
And Your Home Needs
Let’s face it—a sloping, uneven yard makes it difficult to enjoy the outdoors. Retaining walls can improve the grading of your lawn and create more usable space for gardens, walkways, and patios.
Retaining walls are an important tool in creating a landscape you love. With them, you can create stunning pathways, beautiful rain gardens, and even dynamic patios. And you can create this design knowing that your landscape is protected from erosion or sliding.
It all begins with decorative retaining walls! Your space doesn’t have to be an eyesore in order to be functional—create the space you love while keeping your property safe!

How Much does a Decorative Retaining
Wall Cost?
A retaining wall project with Torchwood Landscaping usually starts at $10,000. This investment comes with a 5-year warranty for any hardscape you purchase with us.
We understand that installing a new retaining wall can be a big investment of your time and money and that you’ll have to sacrifice your outdoor space while it’s being completed. That’s why Torchwood offers a totally free, no-obligation estimate for your property. We want to get the job done exactly how you want it and keep it on-time and on-budget.
The Complete Guide to Retaining Walls
Discover how a retaining wall can keep your lawn healthy while adding extra beauty to your landscape. Check out our blog outlining everything you need to know about retaining walls.