Gabion Fence Columns. An entire fence made with gabion baskets looks great, but adding contrasting materials can make it ...

Gabions can be built around outdoor barbecues, be a fence foundation, surround small ponds, be a planter or built as a bench. For many, it’s a contemporary piece of art in a variety of ...

In ancient times, gabions were huge wicker baskets of willows woven to create stable protective barriers without concrete. Each basket was filled with rocks if available, or soil if not.

But what amazed me above all the beauty here were the gabions built by Randy and his sons out of their own rocks. It is so sustainable here — instead of building expensive, resource-intensive ...

But there is a great drainage solution that will keep your yard from becoming a swamp: gabion baskets. Gabion baskets have been used in functional structures for 7,000 years. In the last century ...

Patrick is manager of the project as required by Eagle Scout, and he is focused and determined to see the 27-gabion planter configurations to completion, one stone at a time. According to Patrick ...

Widely used in infrastructure, gabion walls are structures made of mesh metal cages filled with stones. These permeable walls use galvanized steel wire to withstand outdoor conditions. The pieces ...

A few years ago if someone had mentioned gabions I wouldn't have known what they were talking about. They were something that was used in civil engineering, large scale industrial landscaping - a ...

The positivism of the gabion wall is that it allows free flow of storm water and other percolating water along the slopes. Ooty: The National Highways administration has begun work on erecting an ...

However, we can learn much from President Daniel arap Moi’s administration, where building gabions and planting trees were taken seriously as part of an environmental conservation strategy.