Landscaping a residence is like grooming your home. It makes your home aesthetically pleasing and personal place for you and your family to relax. It is much more than adding lots of flowers and shrubs. Steps, terracing, patio decking, fences, brickwork, lightning and sleepers are some of the value added landscape features. Natural stone remain the most desired choice of materials for landscaping architects worldwide. Such stones used for landscaping are called landscaping stones.

With the extensive array of landscaping stones more fulfilling ways are coming in to enhance your home's beauty. Stones like granite, limestone, marble, slate and sandstone are most widely used stones for landscaping.

Types of Stones Used for Landscaping

• Sandstone Landscaping: The most common colors of sandstone used for landscaping are buff, brown, blue, black and pink. They are usually used for making walls.
• Slate Landscaping: The common colors used for landscaping are black, green and red. These stones are very strong and resistant to water.
• Marble Landscaping: These are fine grained. The common shades are pink, white, black, yellow and brown. These stones are strong and have high water absorption. They are used mostly as slabs for walls and for paving.
• Limestone Landscaping: These stones have very low water absorption. They are used for walls and the common shades are grey, black, white and buff.
• Granite Landscaping: These are fine to medium-course grained and are very strong. They are used for walls and stepping stones. The common shades are pink and red.