I did this for a landscaping project because I was not confident enough that it will stay ..lasted ten plus years and then it started cracking. I am now left with unsightly gray blotches and worried the rest might tumble..
It was/is gorgeous..I did three sections ..mostly for three very large kidney shaped raised beds..moss has grown over the stone and I also tried sticking thyme and mint in some
of the suitable gaps..
I guess it’s diff if it’s enclosed and filled with soil. I wish i had the confidence and skill to attempt an actual wall.
I used to drive past a house here where the guy took like three years to complete a 80 ft long dry wall and he planted all kinds of beautiful flowering plants ..it was stunning and when it was done, the flowers and fruit trees popped up with their colours too ..it took forever but he didn’t care..you could tell that it was a labour of love and he was really enjoying it.
That is what I assumed when I first started drywalling. However, in the wild, I can't see such a solution working. Unlike the walls of a house, walls bedded on soil move all the time. In the ever-moving domain of the Welsh hillsides, cement glue would crack within a year.
Ideally, drystone walls are composed of two skins. The way the stones are arranged tends these skins to each incline inwards slightly. In this way, the wall as a whole acquires cohesion through physics.
Several reasons… Primarily, because the ground underneath shifts overtime, particularly in area, subject to a freeze and fall cycle. But you also have to solve for water flow - if you build a solid stone wall with concrete, you also need to add drainage on the backside of the wall. With dry, stacked stone, you can often get away without a complex drainage solution
