Tips for Using Stone in Your Landscaping

Using stones in your landscaping can add numerous benefits to the appearance of your yard. Stones can even be used as an effective ground cover with additional benefits. Rocks also come with a certain level of durability that is unmatched. Your stone could last forever. Landscaping stones come in a variety of materials, colors, shapes, and sizes. These stones provide much in the way of opportunity whether they are used in the beginning when starting anew, or whether they are added to an existing design. Here are some tips for using stone in your landscaping. Contact a professional landscaper for your stone landscaping in Roswell, GA.

Use Stones Instead of Mulch

Using stone as a ground cover can be more expensive, than mulch, but we have already mentioned the durability and how the stones can last forever. They also require no maintenance, like mulch does. Every season, you may have to replace or add to your mulch, while your stones can stay in your garden for a lifetime, needing nothing else from you. The durability and longevity of stones, allow for continued weed coverage and management. When it comes to design, if you have deep-colored surrounding plants or if you are planning to place the stones in a shaded area, it’s best to go with lighter-colored stones. These will add the right amount of contrast to the darker plants or surroundings. You can use the color of certain stones around plants and areas that you would like to call attention to.

Set Up a Rock Garden

A rock garden can be a nice addition to your landscape, that you didn’t even know that you needed. This will add an exotic look and feel to your landscape. It is best that your rock garden is placed in an area that gets a lot of sunlight. Here you will install two or three small boulder stones. The boulders can be surrounded by low-lying flowers. Some of these include flowers such as:

• Decorative cactus
• Ground orchids
• Or Portulaca

You use smaller stones, that work well with the chosen color of your boulders, to fill in any gaps. 

 Make a Pond Feel Whimsical

You can also use your stones to surround your backyard pond. Larger stones surrounding a pond has a way of giving your pond a fairytale feel. You can even utilize certain stones to help hide your pond liner, and if your pond water is dark, lighter-colored stones can provide the perfect contrast. If you are going for a more natural-looking stone effect around your backyard pond, then use stones that are not all the same shape or color, but that are about the same size.

Contact a professional landscaper for your stone landscaping in Roswell, GA.