The stone wall planter shown here is functional, beautiful and relatively easy to build. It's designed to hide an exposed concrete foundation, and provide a place to grow plants and shrubs.

While Montgomery's stone walls are about enhancing his homestead, land owners who settled in the Berkshires more than 250 years ago built them out of necessity. According to local historians and an ...

A beautiful stone wall can act as a pedestal, stage or foundation for a house and garden, visually elevating and emphasizing the property. 6. It can act as outdoor seating.

But, long before that, the same white stone was harvested by the slaves of fourth-century Roman Emperor Diocletian and transported to Split to build his palace. Today, the Diocletian Palace walls ...