DabneyCollins offers award-winning residential and commercial retaining walls in Greenville, SC. Our mission is to provide the best landscape design-build experience for the Upstate.
DabneyCollins specializes in retaining wall design and installation to complement extraordinary outdoor spaces in the Upstate. With 25+ years of experience, our expert craftsmen bring functionality and beauty to exterior environments with structurally sound solutions for erosion control and decorative features to enhance your property. Start the conversation with our team as we listen to your needs for durable, well-crafted walls that integrate seamlessly with your vision. We partner with homeowners to create enduring landscapes that stand the test of time.
Enhance your home’s landscape with DabneyCollins’ premium retaining wall solutions. Whether you’re looking for elegant mortared limestone walls or customizable concrete, stone, wood, or variations like cinderblocks, bricks, pavers, and solid stones, our expert team is here to create durable, stylish designs with dedication to excellence in every detail.
We have extensive experience with all types of paver systems and retaining walls. Our teams design and prepare the ground with the necessary excavation to install your chosen pattern. Our hardscapes and retaining walls stabilize slopes, prevent erosion, and define a wide range of features from staircases and sitting walls to fire pits, water features, and more.
DabneyCollins is a collaborative landscape design firm for retaining walls and breathtaking outdoor spaces. We guide clients from the first design through the entire construction process. Our elegant and effective drainage solutions, custom landscapes, and long-lasting hardscapes are the best design-build experience in the Southeast.
DabneyCollins is also a leading commercial retaining wall company for the Southeast, having installed hundreds of thousands of square feet of walls, barriers, and revetments. Our retaining walls combine strength and style, offering versatile modular block walls, durable MSE structures, boulder walls, and custom solutions. Our dedicated team of designers, landscape architects, estimators, project managers, craftsmen, and installers work together to enhance commercial spaces with exceptional installations. We provide dependable retaining structures for projects of all sizes.
Retaining wall services are not static, and the end of construction is the beginning of our relationship with you. Our team provides support for existing clients from permitting and design through installation, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Landscape drainage solutions and legacy care are hallmarks of DabneyCollins’ landscape design in Greenville and the Upstate. With stewardship and proper care, every project has the potential to flourish and improve over time.
Drawing on 25+ years of landscaping expertise in the Upstate, we consistently delight our clients with custom drainage solutions for residential and commercial retaining walls. Our hardscaping services include patios, outdoor kitchens, pools, decks, pergolas, fencing, driveways, pathways, entryways, signage monuments, parking lots, outdoor fireplaces and lounges, retaining walls, water features, outdoor sound, and landscape lighting, to name a few.
The national average cost of a retaining wall in 2025 is $35 to $50 per square foot. Every project is unique, and the final cost depends on the material used, the wall’s size and height, site preparation, design complexity, labor costs, and any additional features or engineering requirements.
Yes. All retaining walls need drainage to prevent the pressure of water buildup. Over time, even a 2-foot retaining wall can shift because of water accumulation.
DabneyCollins is a landscape design firm and landscape architect whose mission is to provide the best landscape design-build experience in the Southeast. From hardscaping and landscaping to luxury gardens, pool design, outdoor lighting, custom water features, entrance development, driveway layout, site circulation, and more, our team of architects and designers create the finest luxury outdoor spaces in Greenville and the Upstate. Start today by calling us!
DabneyCollins serves Greenville, SC, and our service area extends throughout the Southeast. Some of our popular service areas are located within the Upstate, including Abbeville, Anderson, Arial, Clemson, Clinton, Easley, Fountain Inn, Gaffney, Greenville, Greenwood, Greer, Lake Hartwell, Lake Keowee, Laurens, Mauldin, Pendleton, Piedmont, Pickens, Seneca, Simpsonville, Spartanburg, Travelers Rest, Union, and Williamston. Contact us for all service area inquiries!
Dabney Peeples’ gardens range from highly traditional to playful and contemporary. The three driving forces of his work are the requirements of the architecture, cues from the land, and the unique personalities of every client. These tenets have influenced hundreds of gardens over the past four decades, each one as unique as the place and people who inspired it. He firmly believes that to successfully practice design over time, one must “never quit learning, always stay completely aware of your surroundings and listen, listen, listen.” Dabney eschews trends in the garden, opting instead for timeless solutions guided by the principles of design, proposing that “if a design is good now, it will be good forever.” He finds inspiration both in classical architecture and contemporary masters, because a garden should reference the past while looking to the future.
Dabney has built his practice on the belief that gardens are first and foremost personal. Relationships are essential to the successful creation of every garden. He extolls the importance of a strong partnership, saying, “No matter how extensive or how detailed a set of drawings are, there is absolutely no substitute for trust between client, designer, and contractor.”
Over the course of 20 years, Kenny Collins has built a company from two men with a truck and a couple of shovels into a thriving group of multiple installation crews with specialist craftsmen. His philosophy has always been to put people first, both internally and in client relationships. Kenny also places great emphasis on structural and horticultural integrity, encouraging continuing education, experimentation, and research to augment the collective team experience. “We are continuously improving how we do things, and we never sacrifice our own integrity by taking a shortcut.” He believes that every element contributes to the value of the garden, from the effectiveness of the drainage and water management, to concert-quality outdoor sound and thoughtful landscape lighting. “Community in life is paramount and the gardens that we create cultivate this on another level. They have the ability to promote community in a unique way.” The work at DabneyCollins is ultimately all about people and valuing relationships; when the relationships are solid, everything else will follow. “It does take a team and I love ours. So much more is possible when we work together.”
