Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Decorative gravel

The decorative gravel is everlasting and permanent. It does not fade, disperse, rot, or blow away, and continues to look the same with the day when it was installed, unlike wood or bark mulch. To create indeterminate and endless effects and looks, decorative gravel is available in a myriad of colors, textures and sizes. The decorative gravel is functional and useful as well as good-looking. It keeps weeds down, maintains and preserves moisture in the soil, and reduces or eliminates water and wind erosion.    
           
It is economical to use, decorative gravel for landscape has a rather inexpensive cost per square foot for the initial investment, and continuously returns the savings through minimizing maintenance costs by requiring no annual re-mulching.

There are so many types of decorative gravel; one of them is the arctic white, which is almost pure white crushed calcite marble that is ideal for concrete and general landscape applications.

One type of decorative gravel is the barn red. It is a dark red argillite, which is ideal for walkways and general landscape applications.

There is also black obsidian, which is crushed black volcanic glass, with a smooth, highly shined surface.

The brick chips, which is a crushed lightweight shale bricks. Which only new bricks are used, giving a uniform burnt orange color to the general landscape applications.

Another type of decorative gravel is the canyon blend that is a crushed tan, buff and orange colored quartzite, which is ideal for general landscape application.

The crushed calcite marble in pinks, lavenders and white is called the carnation pink. It is ideal for driveways, walkways and also for general landscape applications.

The clean stone is the gray crushed stone.

Another type of decorative gravel is the eastern sunrise. It is a crushed yellow, red and black cinder. This lightweight aggregate is quite essential for landscaping around ponds or plants beds as well as general applications.

The flamingo quartz, which is a light pink crushed quartz with some stain of silver and gray.

The crushed aggregate with multiple shades of blue and gray, which is called the Hudson blue gray. It is ideal for general landscape applications.

If there’s a Hudson blue gray, there’s also a Hudson valley gravel, which is naturally rounded cross bedded sandstone and quartzite made up of multi colored grays, some tans and a little bit of reds. The textured round finish, make them ideal in general landscape applications.

Koblenz Granite is the crushed orange and gray granite, which is also ideal for general landscape applications.

The crushed red and black aggregate, called the Mohawk red is also ideal in general landscape applications.
The New York white is the crushed dolomite marble, white in color with some gray.

The naturally rounded sandstone aggregate is the nutmeg pebbles. It is dark red with some gray and tan, which is also ideal for general landscape applications. 

Another type of decorative gravel is the ocean pebble, which is naturally rounded yellow to buff colored quartzite. It is ideal for walkways and general landscape applications.

The old gold quartz, a decorative gravel which may be purchased in various sizes, is a crushed quartzite ranging from off white to light brown; it is also ideal for general landscape applications.

The naturally rounded, off white quartzite, is the pearl pebble, which is an ideal for around the swimming pools and general landscape application.

Pine green, a decorative gravel which is the green colored basalt, is ideal for general landscape applications.

Plymouth brown is the crushed dolomite marble in a tan to buff color, is ideal for driveways, the walkways and the general landscape applications.

The rosebud pink is the rose colored crushed quartzite with lavender and gray.

The Royal blend crushed multi colored tan, gray and red stone is ideal for general landscape applications.

Texas white is the crushed dolomite marbles appearing almost white a little gray and brown. The upper Delaware rounds that are naturally rounded granite that comes in variations of gray, red and tan. Another is the Walnut pebble, which is round, rich colored brown and tan stone.  There is also the white granite, which is made from white crushed granite and black specs throughout. Then the white silica pebbles, which are naturally, rounded off white quartzite, which are all ideal for concrete and general landscape applications.

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