Five clever ways to incorporate landscaping stones into your garden design
Landscaping stones are an enduring way to add interest and beauty to your garden area. Whether you have a small courtyard or an extensive garden, landscaping stones can make a dramatic difference to outdoor spaces of all shapes and sizes.
Garden and landscaping design
Stamford Stone’s elegant landscaping stones have been used in inventive, prize-winning designs exhibited at major horticultural shows. Our Clipsham walling stone, for instance, was incorporated by Landscape Designer, Kate Savill, in her gold medal-winning ‘Time is a Healer’ garden at Tatton Park. Kate used the stone to make an innovative, curved seating area.
Meanwhile, designer, Ben Corah, integrated a dramatic use of large, bold stone cubes in his contemporary display at the Gardener’s’ World Live exhibition. Ben’s use of contrasting elements, balanced with soft vegetation scored him a gold.
As the region’s leading stone supplier, Stamford Stone regularly works with garden designers, landscape architects and amateur enthusiasts to advise on all aspects of designing and working with natural stone.
Unsure how to proceed with your landscaping project? Why not talk to us and see how you could include stunning natural landscaping stones in your outdoor design.
Alternatively, book a visit to our outdoor showroom situated at Swaddywell Quarry, Stamford Road, Peterborough, PE6 7EL. It is like no other in the area, offering customers a large selection of stone samples in situ, so you can see for yourself what your chosen stone looks like when properly installed.
Adding natural stone to your garden design
You don’t need to be a professional designer or landscape gardener to bring the beauty of masonry and natural stone to your outdoor space. Although some degree of masonry skill is always an advantage! Here are five ways you can incorporate natural stone in your outdoor area:
Low stone walling
A low stone wall is relatively easy to construct using our locally sourced Lincolnshire limestone. More pleasing than a regular brick wall, a limestone wall can be used to define a boundary, as a retaining wall or to add texture or divide up different areas of your garden.
Stepping stones
If you have a large level area, flat regular or irregular sized paving stones can be used as a pathway to lead you through to a different area of your outdoor space. Alternatively, you could create a continuous connected path or patio with landscaping stone, or even a set of stone steps to take you to another level.
Seating areas
Landscaping stones can be built up into a solid block to create a seating area. Topped with wood, as in Kate Savill’s design, to create a contrast between the two natural materials for a simple yet effective statement.
Borders and raised beds
Stone looks great when used to create a border around your flower beds. Both even and uneven stones work equally well and help to highlight the vegetation. Stone can also be used for raised beds – a more durable alternative to railway sleepers.
Balustrading
In grander garden areas, limestone balustrading can elevate a plain stone wall to an elegant and timeless statement, or match existing walls that have fallen into disrepair. Stamford Stone can design and build hand-turned, natural stone balusters in a variety of profiles, and by using our CNC lathes, we can match exactly historical designs or new architect drawings.
Whatever stone feature you desire, our skilled stone masonry team can deliver. Whether that’s a solid block of stone as a geometric centre-piece. Or a combination of different sized and coloured stones to create features with additional visual interest.
We also offer a wide range of aggregates which can be useful to infill areas or to alternate with solid stones.
Of course, there are many more projects in which you might consider using our wide choice of beautiful landscaping stones. Whichever you undertake, you’re sure to add a new dimension to your outdoor space by choosing to incorporate our locally sourced natural stone.
If you need further inspiration or advice, our friendly team of stone specialists are on hand to help. Call us today on 01780 740970 and discover how easy it can be to turn your dream exterior design into reality.