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I’m building a pond in my backyard with a waterfall and can’t find anywhere that sells just actual flat irregular shaped stone. All the major gardening stores online have waterfall kits, but I don’t need that. I just want large flat stone, but not like pathway stone. Thanks in advance for any help.
I live in a fairly small town with no stone yards within 200 miles or so.
I only need maybe 7 or 8 good sized rocks.
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2 Responses to “Where can I buy some decent slate rocks for a pond waterfall?”
What you want is a stone yard or bulk landscape supplier, not a gardening store. They will have a great variety of stones, including slate, in the size and thickness you need.
You will want to find a local one, rather than online, because shipping would be insane to have slate shipped from out of state. Stone yards can deliver for you for a reasonable fee, and will usually drop it off where you need it (e.g. next to the waterfall you’re creating).
Here are two that I use, http://www.georgialandscapesupply.com/products/stone.shtml# and http://www.stoneforest.biz/products_stackfieldstone.php , but they are local to me (Georgia)… you shouldn’t have trouble finding similar stone suppliers local to you.
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make them… concrete mix and chicken wire…. big sheets of plastic… some concrete color dye… something to mix the concrete in….. something to smooth them with…..
for lighter weight, look up ‘hypertufa’ and follow that recipe…..
http://www.the-artistic-garden.com/faux-rock-recipe.html
be sure to get a really good sealer so they’ll last a long time … give them time to cure right, too……
http://www.google.com/search?q=hypertufa+rocks&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&sa=2
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