DS landscaping & retaining walls

About DS landscaping & retaining walls

Up on the Loess Hills side of Sioux City, streets like the ones through Rose Hill and Prospect Hill climb hard enough that a yard often needs a retaining wall just to hold its own dirt in place, and a snowfall on that kind of grade behaves like nothing on the flatter blocks below. DS landscaping & retaining walls knows those slopes from the ground up — the same eye that sets a stone wall level on a hillside lot is what tells them where a driveway will ice first once the sun drops behind the bluff. Clearing a terraced yard means working it in steps, same as the walls themselves, one level at a time down toward the street. A hillside driveway scraped clear and salted at the steep pitch near the garage is the difference between a car parked safe overnight and one that slides come morning. The bluffs give Sioux City its shape, and this is the work of keeping a foothold on them through a hard winter.