{"id":219,"date":"2016-06-12T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/?p=219"},"modified":"2023-11-07T14:50:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T14:50:04","slug":"dry-stacked-stone-landscaping-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/dry-stacked-stone-landscaping-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry Stacked Stone Landscaping Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I began rebuilding my front porch<\/a>, I found a hidden architectural treasure buried under the stairs. I unearthed the cast concrete cap stones for the brick knee walls that flanked the original stairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They were a little banged up. I just had to save them though, and committed to incorporating them into the final landscape design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was inspired by my honeymoon vacation to Scotland, family ancestry in Ireland, and a love for local parks and WPA projects, but also by my lack of other masonry skills! This was something I could do with a minimal learning curve. It’s flexibility, resistance to freeze\/thaw cycles, and ability to be repaired with minimal disruption is why these structures are able to last hundreds of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mix of materials and styles is intentionally playful and I enjoy that the knee walls flanking the stairs are more a symbolic restoration of their former self with a nod to even simpler times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The main star of this raised rock garden is the Tamukeyama Japanese Maple. The rest is made up of a rotating cast of perennials which I initially over planted so it’s always getting thinned out as things mature and run out of room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I began rebuilding my front porch, I found a hidden architectural treasure buried under the stairs. I unearthed the cast concrete cap stones for the brick knee walls that flanked the original stairs. They were a little banged up. I just had to save them though, and committed to incorporating them into the final […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscaping","category-restoration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}