A retaining wall can offer both functional and aesthetic benefits for your yard. Here's the lowdown on the two different types of concrete retaining walls.

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Parrish uses World Block forms to create mid-sized landscape concrete blocks for retaining walls. World Block offers them an appealing stone look and size that is marketable for his company, he adds.

Installing steel rebar can help prevent your retaining wall from buckling under pressure—this is especially true for concrete cinder blocks. Installing rebar costs between $1 and $2 per square ...

Blocks for retaining walls can weigh as much as 70 pounds apiece. For beds, blocks typically weigh 15 to 20 pounds each, are 12 inches long and about 4 inches high.

Planting-bed blocks are smaller and lighter than those used for retaining walls, so the project won’t be back-breaking. Blocks for retaining walls can weigh up to 70 pounds apiece.

Gregg and Kenda Ottinger of Shawnee, Kan., threw out the railroad ties that lined their 60-foot-long driveway and replaced them with a concrete-block wall two years ago.