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John fabricated this stainless steel water feature for my Gran's next door neighbour, who designed the thing herself.
What are retaining walls?
Retaining walls in Colorado are structures designed to restrain soil to unnatural slopes. They are used to bound soils between two different elevations often in areas of terrain possessing undesirable slopes or in areas where the landscape needs to be shaped severely and engineered for more specific purposes like hillside farming or roadway overpasses. Retaining walls prevent downslope movement or erosion and provide support for vertical or near-vertical grade changes. Retaining walls are generally made of masonry, stone, brick, concrete, vinyl, steel, or timber.
The most important consideration in proper design and installation of retaining walls is that the retained material is attempting to move forward and down slope due to gravity. This creates a lateral earth pressure behind the wall which depends on the angle of internal friction (phi) and the cohesive strength (c) of the retained material, as well as, the direction and magnitude of movement and retaining structure undergoes. Lateral earth pressures are typically smallest at the top of the wall and increase toward the bottom. Earth’s pressures will push the wall forward or overturn it if it is not properly addressed. Also, any groundwater behind the wall that is not dissipated by a drainage system causes an additional horizontal hydrostatic pressure on the walls.
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Some new views of a landscape we installed over a couple of years. The plants are growing and softening the look. What an idyllic setting.
Biodynamic Garden, Ryton.
The thought behind this is it replicates the movement of tidal surges and in the process the water is swirled in opposing directions incorporating dynamic energy into it.
At least thats how i understand it!
Taken on my mobile
Some new views of a landscape we installed over a couple of years. The plants are growing and softening the look. What an idyllic setting.
Pretty much down to the last part of Front Garden Phase One. The last main chunk is the vanishing stream. Need some pond liner, pump and tubing, some more landscaping cloth, rocks and mulch.
365-50 Sunday, 21st June 2009
Day 50 of this project - and my first photograph taken with an SLR! :D
I've been staying with my parents this weekend, and took the opportunity to borrow my dad's DSLR, and had a bit of a play with it in their garden! :)
(PS Having been a bit busy the last few days, I'm a bit behind with looking at other people's photostreams! I'll catch up in the next few days though! :)