Landscaping With Stone - Natural Stone in the Design

Landscaping with stone is my first choice for my Clients. Although projects can be very nice when other paving materials are used, natural stone in the landscape creates a very special project.

But how do you go about choosing the garden stone and come up with good stone landscaping ideas?

Landscaping with stone is not an easy task, particularly when you are combing different types of landscape features such as landscape walls, patio designs, walkways, and landscape steps. In addition, your stone landscaping ideas must take into account the material that your house is, such as wood or vinyl siding, cedar shakes, brick, stone, etc.

I have written about one of my projects and how I went about coordinating the various stone in the project. You can read about it on my page: Landscape With Natural Stone

Landscape Retaining Walls

There are many types of stone available if you want to landscape with natural stone and many stone landscaping ideas. Often stone suppliers have give the stone they carry their own names, so it is difficult to just learn about a type and then ask for it. The best thing to do is to visit the stone supplier.

Stones come in many sizes and colors, all natural of course. Some are more gray while others are more tan. Many have various colors running through. You can read a lot more about stone garden walls here.

Patio and Walkway Ideas

Once again, there are many types of natural stone to choose from.

Travertine pavers are probably the most reasonably priced. They are quite beautiful. They are actually natural travertine stone that has been cut into regular shapes for easy installation.

Bluestone comes in many shapes and sizes, whether it is geometric or free-form. Tennessee Crab Orchard stone is a beautiful color. It ranges from rust to peach to tan. It is one of the softer stone, however, and may flake over time. Idaho Quartz is a very hard stone. The color is shades of gray with some tans. It does have some "glitz" to it (it glitters slightly).

Landscape Steps

Landscape steps should coordinate with whatever paving is near it. The risers can be natural stone with the same stone used for the treads. Or the treads may be bluestone. The bluestone can be divided into pieces or one long individual piece. You can read more about landscape steps here.

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