Imagine an abundance of bountiful blooms in your garden, A place where wildflowers grow and bees and butterflies love to land. Using rockery stones in the garden has many benefits and the high-quality rockery stones we offer are durable, low maintenance, and eliminate the need to mow the lawn. They enable you to cultivate natural environments where alpine plants thrive and succulents flourish. Create a foundation of varied sized stones and sow everything from carpets of candy-coloured pink thrift to aromatic herbs and ornamental grasses. Our rockery stones also make fantastic garden accents when used as striking standalone feature rocks or as borders for beautiful flower beds.
Rockery stones from Decorative Gardens come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and textures, and offer you the perfect way to upgrade your outdoor space for summer. From creamy Cotswold Stone to Deep Plum Slate Rockery, we have all the materials you need to bring striking exotic edge or appealing country house charm into your garden. Whether you’ve got plans for a large-scale design or want to give a small space a distinctive twist, we’ve got plenty of creative rockery stone ideas to enhance your garden this year.
Rockery stones are low maintenance decorative aggregates that offer an easy and affordable way to add visual interest, texture, depth and diversity to your garden. At Decorative Gardens, our high quality rockery stones are incredibly versatile, allowing you to create subtropical designs, alpine spaces, wildflower nooks and perennial gardens. They enable you to foster the right environment for both sun-loving and shade-tolerant plants. Our rockery stones are also ideal for upping the curb appeal of your driveway or for creating beautiful borders between flower beds and lawns. In addition to giving your garden that luxury landscaped look, our rockery stones effectively absorb light and heat, so your plants stay cool and protected.
Rockery stones from Decorative Gardens come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and textures, and offer you the perfect way to upgrade your outdoor space for summer. From creamy Cotswold Stone to Deep Plum Slate Rockery, we have all the materials you need to bring striking exotic edge or appealing country house charm into your garden. Whether you’ve got plans for a large-scale design or want to give a small space a distinctive twist, we’ve got plenty of creative rockery stone ideas to enhance your garden this year.
What are rockery stones?
Rockery stones are low maintenance decorative aggregates that offer an easy and affordable way to add visual interest, texture, depth and diversity to your garden. At Decorative Gardens, our high quality rockery stones are incredibly versatile, allowing you to create subtropical designs, alpine spaces, wildflower nooks and perennial gardens. They enable you to foster the right environment for both sun-loving and shade-tolerant plants. Our rockery stones are also ideal for upping the curb appeal of your driveway or for creating beautiful borders between flower beds and lawns. In addition to giving your garden that luxury landscaped look, our rockery stones effectively absorb light and heat, so your plants stay cool and protected.
5 stunning ways to enhance your garden with rockery stones
Looking for exciting ways to enhance your garden? Want to create a layered look for visual interest? Fancy tropical vegetation, colourful perennials and sizzling succulents? With our rockery stones it's easy to create the kind of conditions that mimic natural habitats where everything from intriguing succulents to vivid aubretia flourish. Discover the latest in outdoor inspiration with our 5 stunning ways to enhance your garden with rockery stones.
1. The new mood is all about the herbs
In the past two years, as we have spent more time at home, there has been a trend towards growing gardens that are not only beautiful but also edible. Designing a herb rock garden is a popular choice. The result is a beautiful garden that includes all the benefits of fragrant herbs, many of which you can use as culinary spices in the kitchen as well. With our collection of rockery stones you can build pockets of space where herbs will thrive. Wondering which herbs to use? Dwarf varieties are the best options and we love rosemary, creeping thyme, sage, chamomile, lavender, parsley and sweet violet.
Our granite and slate rockery stones are ideal for creating herb rock gardens. These stones have excellent heat enhancing properties which will help bring out all the aromatic flavours of the herbs you plant. A herb rock garden is a low maintenance way of harvesting a fresh supply of ingredients for your kitchen and an excellent way of reducing your carbon footprint.
2. Create an earthy palette with a desert-style rock garden
A desert-inspired rock garden will look gorgeous in any outdoor space that gets plenty of direct sunlight. Imagine the sun-bleached tones of Palm Springs, the prickly beauty of cacti found in Arizona and the sword-like spikes of the yucca shrubs you see in the Mojave Desert. With a desert-inspired rock garden, you'll be hopping on the xeriscaping trend, a landscape design technique that doesn't require grass and needs little to no watering. This eco-friendly style of gardening is perfect for those who are keen to conserve water and reduce their use of fertiliser.
At Decorative Gardens, we have a fantastic selection of rockery stones that will look beautiful incorporated into a desert-style rockery. Great options include our large boulders, glistening granite, Coral Twist and Mist Rockery and Altico Dove Grey Rockery. And if you're looking for that perfect sandy desert shade, Cotswold Rockery is an excellent choice. Select tough and hardy drought-tolerant plants such as cacti, aloe vera and ghost plant succulents for your desert-inspired rock garden. Plump for ornamental grasses such as blue fescue grass and the evergreen perennial of dragon’s blood. You can add a bright splash of colour with rainbow lewisia or go soft and muted with silver carpet lamb's ear.
3. This is where the wildflowers grow
Do you dream of creating a fairytale wildflower rock garden? Our rockery stones come in various sizes and colours, all perfect for creating enchanting forest vibes and rockeries jam-packed with county house charm. Pollen-rich wildflower rock gardens are an increasingly popular choice, as they not only bring in pops of colour, but also encourage bees and butterflies to visit. When it comes to adding texture and colour to a wildflower rock garden, our Forest Green Granite Rockery and Plum Slate Rockery are great options. Wondering what to plant? Wild basil, harebell, cheddar pink and wild marjoram are all excellent choices.4. Rockery stones for fans of modern minimalism
Love the idea of bringing rockery stones into your garden design but not so keen on the look of a traditional rockery? There are still plenty of things you can do with thoughtful placement of rockery stones. Our extra large Arctic White Boulders are the ultimate decorative landscaping stone. For modern minimalism, use them in trios along garden paths or to create borders between flower beds and grass. Select large boulders for a show stopping feature attraction on shingle lawns or get creative and design a stylish Japanese garden with a solitary smooth white boulder surrounded by smaller pebbles and white sand.
Looking for stately presence that will create visual impact? Our supersized Welsh Slate rockery makes for a stunning standalone piece. Want to add colour and create a certain mood? Even if you’re not building a rock garden, our rockery stones can be used as stunning decorative pieces. Reach for our large Cotswold Rockery to bring warm tones into the garden or opt for Rustic Sage for those soul-soothing silvery green cool tones.
>5. Use rockery stones to build bold and beautiful borders
Want to give the space between your flower beds and lawn an organic look? Rockery stones are the perfect solution for creative edging. If you want a stunning border to enhance your garden, slate and granite stones are fantastic options because they are resistant to weeds and heavy enough not to move. No matter how big or how small your choice of stones, they'll keep gravel, mulch, and plants where they should be. Equally, our decorative aggregates can be used to jazz up driveways in creative ways. Strategically placing larger boulders along the driveway will add visual interest and curb appeal. Go bright and white for a fresh and modern aesthetic or opt for the more rustic and textured Cotswold Rockery for those irresistible creamy countryside feels.Rockery stones are an excellent way of adding texture, depth, and dimension to your outdoor space. They can be wild and wonderful, peaceful and pretty or modern and minimalist. At Decorative Gardens, we have a whole spectrum of colours and sizes available. Whether you're looking for the golden hues of Cotswold Stone or the viridescent shades of Forest Green Granite, we have you covered. With our selection of small, large and supersized natural stones you can create layered gardens, rock walls, waterfalls, borders and striking standalone features in your outdoor space. Combine our rockery stones with winter foliage, summer flowers, evergreens, succulents and herbs and create a garden that blooms all year round.
