Landscaping Stone

Landscaped gardens are the latest rages in the home décor industry and a very novel and classy way of spicing up the décor of your garden is to add landscaping stones to the ornamentation. You can pave your garden or the walkway with stones or incorporate stones into the boundary wall or fencing or to flag off one portion of the garden from another.

Stones can also be used to encrust the top sides or pave the duck pond or lake. Stones can also be liberally utilized in the decorations to lend an antique and quaint touch. A stone bench or seating arrangement in a lush green garden looks so romantic and a garden décor based on stones can transport you into another world far above the terra firma.

Stone Wall Hardscaping

Stone walls in your garden impart an old world charm that cannot be matched or surpassed by anything else. There are numerous variations in stone walls like:
A stone encrusted retaining wall that prevents down sliding and erosion or becomes useful in terrace farming/gardening.

Stones can also be used to border flower beds or vegetable gardens.
Stone walls that form property boundary, but you have to take permission from your local surveyor for this.

You can line the sides of your driveway with stone walls.

Stones can also be made use of to create a partition wall between the proper lawn and the outer lawn.

Variations

Stone wall landscaping involves a choice between mortared wall and dry wall. If you have opted for mortared wall, you have to use round rocks.

In order to create a sweeping curve, your stone wall should be convex.

A sloping hill topped and bordered by a stone wall looks fascinating.

You can create an archway in the middle of your stone wall. This will impart a medieval Tuscan look to your garden.

Top off your stone wall with a stone cap for additional effect. This means putting the longest and largest flat stones at the top.

Or you may opt for mortar cap to top off a stone wall consolidated with mortar.

Color/Shape/Size of Landscaping Stones

For a rugged look opt for large irregularly shaped stones.

For a whimsical effect, you can select round small stones.

There are also medium flat stones.

Colors depend on specimens like quartz or dull drab colored stones or white marble or yellow or sand colored stones.