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A Guide To Building A Great Looking Rock Wall Looking to add a new outdoor addition to your landscape? Rock retaining walls are an excellent way to add beauty and creativity to your outdoor space while also increasing your landscape’s practicality.      Here’s a step by step guide for how to build a rock […]

It is time to give your landscape a makeover? Having a rock wall installed is a simple, practical, and effective way to give your landscape an immediate facelift. Not only do rock walls match virtually every landscaping style, but they can also be installed in a minimal time frame and don’t break the budget.  As […]

Wondering what types of landscaping stones are available for you to use in your Seattle home’s landscape? You’ve come to the right place. For over 35 years, the rockery experts here at New Life Rockeries have been laying landscaping stone around Seattle.  Here’s a list of the different types of stone for landscaping that we […]

Alpine rockeries are an excellent landscaping solution for homeowners who want a low maintenance outdoor space. They are compact, aesthetically pleasing, and generally require very little upkeep. What is an Alpine Rockery? An alpine rockery is a landscape design that mixes rock gardens with alpine plants to form a low maintenance landscape. Alpine rockeries are […]

  Summer is the best time of year in the Pacific Northwest. For many homeowners, this means family get-togethers, backyard barbecues, and naps in comfy patio chairs. If you’re planning on hosting a lot this summer and want to make sure that your summer landscaping is on point, here are several summer landscaping tips and ideas […]

As a homeowner, one of the landscape topics that you hear discussed often is the question of retaining walls. Are they important? Should you have one installed? Understanding the purpose of a retaining wall and whether or not one would be beneficial to your home and landscape is more nuanced than it may at first […]

As a home or business owner, you might have started to notice that the beautiful retaining wall you had installed on your property recently is already starting to tilt, sink, crack, or bulge. This is not normal and is a sign that your retaining wall is failing. This could be for one of many reasons, […]

If you’re new to the landscaping scene and want to use your extra downtime to start improving your knowledge of landscaping and work on an outdoor project or two, here’s some helpful information for individuals learning about the different types of gravel. Different Types of Gravel Explained There are various types of gravel each with […]

Many homeowners are finding that they have extra time on their hands this spring and want to use it to DIY a drystack retaining wall. If this is you, this article will give you a step by step tutorial for how to build a drystack retaining wall for your home. What is a Drystack Retaining […]

Outdoor landscaping is such a creative hobby. It lets you take items that you have access to, like railroad ties, wooden pallets, and more and gives you the chance to turn them into something that adds beauty to your yard.  If you want to DIY a retaining wall built from railroad ties, this article will […]