Retaining Wall Blocks

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  Black Rundle Cambrian Copper Canyon Providence West Coast

  Pangaea® Natural Stone - Castlestone Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Chinook Copper Canyon Lancaster New England Providence West Coast

  Pangaea® Natural Stone - Atlas Strip Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Coyote Lancaster New England Providence Thunder Ridge Wolverine

  Pangaea® Natural Stone - Quarry Ledge Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Brown Fogg Grey Tan Taupe

  Dutch Quality Stone® - Wall Caps - Massachusetts

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  Industrial Grey Winesburg

  Dutch Quality Stone® - Weathered Plank Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Autumn Blend Fallbrook Oak Blend Sagewood Sienna Steinhaus

  Dutch Quality Stone® - Stack Ledge Veneer - Massachusetts

  From $0.00 USD

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  Greystone Trailhead Winter Point

  Dutch Quality Stone® - Rough Ashlar Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Autumn Blend Charcoal Columbus Blend Elkwood Great Lakes Kentucky Oak Blend Ohio Tan Pennsylvania

  Dutch Quality Stone® - Limestone Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Natural Blend Pennsylvania Prestige Quail Grey Sagewood Sienna

  Dutch Quality Stone® - Ledgestone Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Coal Crest Quail Grey Snowpack

  Dutch Quality Stone® - Handformed Brick Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Arizona Ashen Coal Crest Pennsylvania Prestige Sienna Winter Point

  Dutch Quality Stone® - Dry Stack Veneer - Massachusetts

  From $0.00 USD

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  As Shown Black Grey

  Cultured Stone® - Drain-n-dry Lath And Accessories - Massachusetts

  From $29.58 USD

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  Champagne Grey Nightfall Sable Taupe

  Cultured Stone® - Tuscan Lintels - Massachusetts

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  Champagne Grey Nightfall Sable Taupe

  Cultured Stone® - Trim Stones - Massachusetts

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  Grey Nightfall Sable Taupe

  Cultured Stone® - Light Fixture Stones - Massachusetts

  From $102.72 USD

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  Champagne Grey Nightfall Sable Taupe

  Cultured Stone® - Keystones - Massachusetts

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  Bucks County Chardonnay

  Cultured Stone® - Limestone Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Arctic Foundation Span Talus

  Cultured Stone® - Hewn Stone Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Bucks County Chardonnay

  Cultured Stone® - European Castle Stone Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Black Isle Burnt Ochre Palermo

  Cultured Stone® - Del Mare Ledgestone Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Carbon French Grey Parchment

  Cultured Stone® - Cast-fit Veneer - 8" X 16" - Massachusetts

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  Antique Red High Desert

  Cultured Stone® - Cultured Brick Used Brick Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Spring Summer

  Cultured Stone® - Stream Stone Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Aspen Bucks County Chardonnay Echo Ridge Grey Wolf Creek

  Cultured Stone® - Southern Ledgestone Veneer - Massachusetts

  From $0.00 USD

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  Earth Blend Lake Tahoe Lakeshore

  Cultured Stone® - River Rock Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Arcadia Arctic Ethos Trek

  Cultured Stone® - Pro-fit Terrain Ledgestone Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Gray Mojave Platinum Shale Southwest Blend

  Cultured Stone® - Pro-fit Ledgestone Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Palisades Sevilla

  Cultured Stone® - Ancient Villa Ledgestone Veneer - Massachusetts

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  Stanhope

  Cultured Stone® - Textured Cast-fit Veneer - 12" X 24" - Massachusetts

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  Black Mountain Black Rundle Chardonnay Dark Ridge Echo Ridge Pheasant Summit Peak Umber Creek Winterhaven

  Cultured Stone® - Pro-fit Alpine Ledgestone Veneer - Massachusetts

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  As Shown Beige Black Brown Grey

  Be.on Stone - Veneer Accessories - Massachusetts

  From $16.76 USD

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  Basalto Carbo Grapho Grio Oslo Oxo Porto Rialto Tero

  Be.on Stone - Stone Veneer - Massachusetts

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  As shown

  Interloc Natural Stone Panels - Interlocking Panels - Massachusetts

  From $915.42 USD

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  Antique Blend Gray Blend Slate Blend Walnut Blend

  Keystone® Retaining Walls - Gardenwall Series - Michigan

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  Limestone Blend Rustic Blend Sahara Blend Slate Blend Walnut Blend Chestnut Blend Graphite Blend Manistee Blend

  Keystone® Retaining Walls - Verazzo Series - Michigan

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  Cherokee - Blue/Brown/Buff Cherokee - Blue/Buff Cherokee - Brown/Buff Hickory - Blue Hickory - Blue/Brown Hickory - Brown Wildhorse Swirl White Marble

  Wall Stone - Oklahoma

  From $287.95 USD

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  Brown Buff Blue Buff Blue/Brown Buff

  Wall Stone - Natural - Stigler - Oklahoma

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  Grey/Brown

  Basalt Veneer - British Columbia

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  Red/Brown White Black

  Wall Stone - Minnesota

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  Blonde

  Wall Stone - Split - Utah

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  Blonde

  Wall Stone - Natural - Utah

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  Blonde Blonde/Brown Turquoise Golden Cloud Sunset Bronze

  Veneer - Utah

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  Armour Stone 30" - Ontario, Canada

  $195.00 USD

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  Fieldstone

  Wall Stone - Natural - Gordonville - Pennsylvania

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  Full Color

  Wallstone - Sawn - Snapped - Gordonville - Pennsylvania

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  Sandstone

  Wall Stone - Natural - Napoleon - Michigan

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  Limestone Blend Slate Blend Walnut Blend

  Keystone® - Fire Pit Blocks Old World - Michigan

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  Buff/Crimson

  Wall Stone - Natural - Split-face - Mosinee - Wisconsin

  $817.95 USD

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  Castleton Granite Chester Granite Old Chester Granite Quaker Hill Raven Hill Granite Windsor

  Wall Stone - Chester - Vermont

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Choosing Retaining Wall Blocks in Natural Stone

Start with how tall the wall needs to be, because that decides nearly everything else. Up to about three feet, wall stone can be dry-laid on a compacted gravel base with no mortar, and that covers most garden walls, terraces and seating walls. Above three feet the wall is holding back soil under load, so it needs heavier blocks at the base, a drainage layer behind the face, and a base built to carry the weight. Most areas require an engineer to sign off on anything over four feet, so check your local code before ordering.

Then choose the stone. Natural stone blocks do not interlock the way concrete units do. They hold through their own weight, a slight lean back into the slope, and courses that overlap the joints below. Sawn wall stone stacks quickly in level courses. Full-color limestone varies more piece to piece and reads as a hand-built wall. For anything tall, or anywhere the wall meets water or steep grade, armour stone carries the load in single large pieces. In a freeze-thaw climate, denser stone such as granite moves less through the seasons and keeps its face longer.

Retaining Walls, Garden Walls and Landscape Blocks

A retaining wall does two jobs at once. It holds back soil, and it creates flat ground you can actually use. On a sloped lot, terracing turns unusable grade into planting beds or a level seating area. Around a patio or pool deck, a low wall retains the fill that levels the surface. Built at seat height, that same wall becomes seating around a fire pit without taking up extra footprint.

The same blocks work at a smaller scale as garden wall and landscape blocks: edging a driveway, framing a raised bed, or marking the line between lawn and planting. Because no two stones are identical, the finished wall reads as part of the landscape rather than a product set into it. If you are facing an existing wall rather than building one, you want stone veneer instead.

Sawn Wall Stone, Full-Color Limestone and Armour Stone

Sawn and snapped wall stone is cut to a set bed height with a snapped face that keeps the natural texture. It stacks in level courses with tight joints and suits formal garden walls and seating walls. Some lines come in fixed sizes, including 4 x 24 inch and 8 x 24 inch units.

Full-color limestone wall stone carries more variation in face, thickness and tone, so each course looks laid by hand rather than stacked from a mold. Quarried in Indiana and Wisconsin.

Armour stone and outcroppings are single large pieces from Ontario and Michigan for walls that need mass: tall retaining walls, boulder walls on a steep grade, pond and shoreline edges. One piece per course, set by machine.

Colors across the range run from grays such as Canyon Gray and Heather Gray, through Buff and Cream, to Blue Granite and Chestnut Granite. Stone shifts tone when it is wet and again in direct sun, so see a piece against your own house before you commit to a full order.

Buy Natural Stone Retaining Wall Blocks

Order a sample to check color and texture in your own light before you commit. Samples are free, with a subsidized $29 shipping fee credited back against your order. Contractors and landscape architects can register for trade pricing, volume quotes and job leads. Questions on quantities or freight: 1 (800) 688-1796.