Patent ID: 8313267

Claim:
A landscaping wall comprising: a plurality of concrete blocks each having an upper surface, a lower surface, side faces joining the upper and lower surfaces, a rear face and a front face, the blocks being dry stacked to form a wall with the upper and lower edges of the front faces of the blocks being horizontal, a channel formed in the lower or upper surface of at least one of the blocks, the channel having a length extending at least partially from the front face of the block toward the rear face of the block, the channel having a greatest cross-sectional height transverse to the length and measured from the surface in which the channel is formed in a direction toward the other of the lower or upper surface, the height being no greater than ½ inch and less than the length of the channel; an accessory mounting bar having a mounting portion and an outer end, the mounting portion having a cross section sized to permit the mounting portion of the bar to be positioned in the channel in the at least one block, the mounting portion having a length greater than the height of the channel; and at least one of an accessory or an accessory holder on the outer end of the bar extending beyond the front face of the at least one block.