Last week I wrote about my recent trip to Southern California. I was fortunate to spend time with a dear friend and his wife. I don’t know that I’ve ever met a person who’s more in love with a home ...

Reducing soil erosion, turning steep slopes into terraced backdrops, creating focal points in the landscape—retaining walls serve many purposes. Indeed, they are some of the most common ways to ...

With innovative hillside landscape ideas, such as terraced beds and low-maintenance plants, you can make the most of a sloped or hilly yard. A sloped yard doesn’t have to be a landscaping ...

Under the amended zoning ordinance, a conditional use permit is no longer required to put a retaining wall in a shore impact ...