Crafted Utah Retaining Walls - Cottonwood Landscapes, LLC

Your house looks picture perfect, from the tops of its shingles to its bottom-most entry step. Understandably, you want your yard to look just as beautiful and grand as your home, but you have a little problem: an uneven slope. It dips and drops, suddenly, and you worry that the soil around these areas will erode over time or make it unstable for your visitors. Maintaining your yard with those unmanageable hills can prove to be difficult and expensive.

Luckily for you, you can call on Cottonwood Landscapes LLC to transform your yard with beautiful hardscaping retaining walls. Our walls are both functional and stunning, so you can make the most of your garden space.

Add A Retaining Walls To Your Backyard Oasis

Materials To Match Your Garden Style

Many homeowners install simple retaining walls to hold or retain the soil. However, you can take this necessary feature a step further and turn it into an eye-catching focal point with the right materials.

As a premium builder of landscaping and retaining walls, we understand that you want materials that complement your style. That is why we offer the following retaining wall materials:

Boulders
Bricks
Segmental Blocks
Dry Stacks
Wood Ties
Concrete

We use only top-quality materials to ensure that your retaining wall looks beautiful, refined, and elegant.

Surface Finishes:

Aside from the materials that you use to actually build your wall, another key component of retaining walls is the finish, which greatly affects the durability and aesthetic of the final design. Learn about some popular surface finishes for retaining walls, below:

Stain: Perfect for any sort of interlocking materials, such as stone, brick, or concrete blocks. Water-based stains help give your wall a more complete, uniform look, and help protect it from the elements.
Stucco: If you use some cheap or unsightly materials to build your wall, then it can be to your benefit to apply a layer of stucco over the surface, which still provides texture to your wall and a natural aesthetic of earthy tones.
Veneer: Another great option to add to a plain or ordinary outer wall is veneer, which is a layer of thin bricks and stones that are held together by concrete. This is a more cost effective way to get the look of natural stone, but without a solid stone wall.

Landscape Inspiration For The Occasion

At Cottonwood Landscapes LLC, we understand that every home and homeowner is different. Your yard requires a special touch that only our talented designers can provide. Learn more about some of the uses that our customers commonly have for retaining walls, below:

Segment the backyard into different terraces with varying levels of elevation. This helps organize your backyard, better, and makes it aesthetically pleasing.
Separate your patio from the rest of the backyard with a retaining wall that puts your patio at a lower elevation from the rest of your yard, making it appear cut out.
Create a border in your front yard by placing retaining walls between your yard and the sidewalk. This is especially great if you use climber plants to adorn your walls.
Outline your driveway by raising your yard up on a retaining wall around the concrete of your driveway.

Elements Of Retaining Walls

A retaining wall is different from other walls that you can use in your yard, due to the uniquely engineered design that goes into building one. There are several different key components of a retaining wall that make it functional and visually stunning. Here are the important parts of any retaining wall:

Outer Wall: The part of the wall that you actually see. This is where the beautiful materials, whether stone, wood, or concrete, are used.
Drainage Stone: A layer of stone that goes between the outer wall and the soil of the yard around it. It prevents water from gathering up behind the wall, and eroding the stone, concrete, or wood.
Filter Fabric: A thin layer of tough fabric that wraps around the drainage stone to prevent the soil from packing into the stone and preventing water drainage.
Batter: The batter isn’t actually a physical piece of the wall, but is the angle at which the wall leans backward into the soil around it. Typically, it is recommended that retaining walls have a batter of 1 inch for every 1 foot tall the wall is.
Weep Hole: A gap in the wall that should be spaced out every 6 or so feet, in order to let excess water escape from the base of the wall.
Footing: A layer of concrete that is placed at the base of the wall for support.
Footing Drain: A pipe through the footing that carries water out to the weep holes in the wall.

Climber Plants

One of the great benefits of having a retaining wall is the ability to add plants to the outer wall to help blend it in with the rest of your property. The key to doing this is to use climber plants, which include types of vines, ivies, and certain flowers. Here are some common types of climber plants:

Boston Ivy
Californian Lilac
Potato Vine
Hydrangeas
Chocolate Vine
Waterwheel
Variegatum

See What Our Clients Say

    
 
 
        
   Matthew Horn 
 2023-12-20
 
 
  They were very professional—showing up exactly when they said they would, and things looked exactly how they described. And whenever anything did deviate from expectations, they were quick with communications. I could not expect anything more.
  
 
       
   Bill Aho 
 2023-06-14
 
 
  Cottonwood Landscapes built a 20' semi-circular raised patio with pavers, along with some related projects that also involved electrical, carpentry and masonry.  My feedback is very positive.  Their design skills are excellent.  They had a much better vision of the finished product than I did.  Their crews were professional, dependable and talented.  They knew what they were doing and showed up for a full day of work every day.  They also had very good masonry and carpentry subs.  And they were generally responsive and easy to work with. I will say this--they aren't cheap. There were some charges that had me scratching my head and we did have a few back and forths.  But the questionable charges were relatively small compared to the overall price and I would much rather have a finished product that I love than take a minor price reduction.  I would recommend them with confidence, especially for those with high standards.
  
 
       
   Tianna Jorgensen 
 2022-12-01
 
 
  The people working in this company are honest hard-working individuals they get the job done and it looks amazing afterwards we are always sure to clean up as we go honesty and integrity is super important and this company has it
  
 
       
   Andrew S 
 2022-11-30
 
 
  Overall I would say I am pleased with the design process and the installation. I had them regrade the slope and replace almost everything in my back yard. They replaced some clay with soil, regraded everything to slope away from the house, added a paver walkway, installed sod, and several other items.  The workers showed up on time and worked very hard to get job done right and in a timely manner. The landscaping is beautiful, the paver walkway looks amazing, and most of the project looks great. You can tell that they know what they are doing and care about their work.

My only frustrations were how they accidentally broke a rock feature and also how they missed some quality checks. Missing paver sand, pop up drains being buried too deep, and other minor items would all be quick and easy fixes if they had inspected the work or else responded to my requests before the ground froze.

The good news is that they agreed to look at the missed items, and they agreed to fix them later… but I will have to wait 3-4 months for the ground to thaw and then hope that they are still willing to resolve everything then.  They definitely got the most important things completed correctly in this project, and it really does look great.  But it would have been a better experience if the final touches had been completed correctly and in a timely manner.
  
 
       
   David Dunne 
 2022-09-22
 
 
  Not easy to locate, lacking any signage, but I was finally able to find the right Building.