This seems like a silly question, but hopefully it makes sense! We're looking to put in a small retaining wall around an area of our yard that we've leveled out - it's about two feet at the highest point, so not really a complicated situation structurally. We do have a situation where there also needs to be a "stepped" pattern along the top edge. But just looking at the retaining wall block options from big box stores, they most seem to be of the variety that really only look good from one perspective:
I also see rough-cut style blocks like this one, that do seem to look consistent from both sides:
But in that case, they seem to be so rough-cut that they don't really take adhesive on the level edges - it looks like they're just held in place with gravity, which seems insufficient from a retention perspective. Am I just missing something as far as block choices go? Are there better places to look than the big box stores? This seems like a relatively straightforward thing, but I'm seeing an enormous price increase to get into different types of blocks that stack "normally".
And we are planning to get the dilapidated fence replaced soon!