A loose heap of hand-sized and barrow-sized buff and grey-brown sandstone rockery pieces on a quarry floor, weathered rounded edges, visible bedding lines, some with a rusty iron stain, a few fern fronds at the edge of frame, soft overcast light, shallow depth of field.

Products · Rockery and landscape stone

Rockery and landscape stone

Sandstone with character, for rockeries, banks, borders and steps. Every piece is different, which is the point.

A landscaper's finished garden: a curved buff sandstone retaining wall with planting spilling over, a sandstone-flag path at its foot, late afternoon light.

Stone that looks like it's always been there

Rockery stone is chosen for shape and surface rather than size. Pieces with weathered edges, bedding lines and a bit of colour variation make a planting bank or border look settled from the first season.

Weathered corner of an old sandstone face where beds part along thin dark grey shale bands, rounded weathered edges, ferns and moss in the cracks, soft light. — Where the beds part, rockery pieces come away with their weathered edges intact.

The products

Four weathered buff sandstone rockery pieces on rough grass, rounded edges, bedding lines, iron staining and a little moss, hedge softly behind. — Rockery stone · Chosen for shape and surface, not size.

Rockery stone

Mixed pieces, most of them light enough to place by hand or with a barrow.

Good forRockeries, alpine beds, garden features

The same bank before planting: rockery stones set into bare soil, tilted back into the slope.

The same path edged with rockery stone, planting spilling over, flags jointed in matching colour. — Rockery stone edging keeps the beds off the path.

Bank and edging stone

Longer, heavier pieces for holding the toe of a bank or edging a bed.

Good forRetaining low banks, lining borders and ponds

Close view of split sandstone stepping stones rising through the planting on the same bank. — Split stepping stones, bedded on dust.

Split stepping stones

Flattish pieces split along the bed, with a natural top.

Good forStepping-stone paths through lawns and planting

Landscapers and garden designers; homeowners planning a garden project; estates and parks looking after banks, ponds and borders.

How it's supplied

Rockery and landscape stone is stockpiled loose and loaded by shovel or crate. Collection and delivery are arranged when we open. If you'd like to choose pieces by eye, say so on the form.

A low, spread heap of mixed rockery-sized sandstone pieces on a gravel floor, varied shapes and weathered faces, a small excavator bucket resting at the edge of frame. — Ask to choose pieces by eye when you register.

Related uses

See it in use

A sloping front garden below a sandstone cottage with a heavy buff-grey stone-slate roof, planted as a rockery of buff sandstone pieces with alpines and low shrubs, stone steps up the middle, summer.

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Flat straight-on texture of a naturally split sandstone face, gentle relief, warm honey tones.