Material glossary
Landscape
Landscape covers the loose stone and rock that go into a yard for looks — around a bed, along a border, or across a bare spot. Overlaps heavily with decorative stone; the split is a taxonomy leftover from the old catalog and is being cleaned up.
The handful of families here still route to a page — the rest of the landscape catalog lives under Decorative stone and rock. We deliver the ones with a green pill; the rest are here for reference.
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How to choose within landscape
Look at Decorative stone first
Most of what shows up as "landscape" lives under Decorative stone and rock now. Start there if you don't see what you're after.
Loose stone stays inside a border
Anything smaller than a fist rolls where the wind and the mower push it. Put a border down first, then the stone.
Size to the space
Big yards read fine with big stone. Small beds want small stone or a boulder as a focal point — not a mix that reads busy.
Source on request
We can source landscape
We don't stock these in our online catalog, but we can quote and deliver most of them through our supplier network. Tell us what you need.
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Crushed stone
Crushed stone is rock that's been broken and screened into sizes.
Decorative stone and rock
Decorative stone and rock is what you see, not what you sit on.
Base materials
Base materials go under a driveway, patio, or slab — not on top.
Rip rap and armor stone
Rip rap and armor stone are the big pieces that hold a shoreline, a slope, or a culvert together.
Mulch and organics
Mulch and organics are the top layer that goes over the soil — bark, wood chips, compost, or a dyed blend.
Gravel
Gravel is loose stone in the size range you'd actually notice — pea-sized up to a few inches.
Sand products
Sand is fine crushed rock, small enough to pass through a #4 screen (about 3/16 of an inch).
Fill materials
Fill is what goes in the hole before anything else does.
Concrete aggregate
Concrete aggregate is the stone and sand that go into a concrete mix.
Screenings and stone dust
Screenings and stone dust are the fines a crusher makes on the way to sizing bigger stone.
Recycled materials
Recycled materials are crushed concrete, crushed asphalt, and reclaimed base — old road and slab work run back through a crusher.
Drainage materials
Drainage materials are clean, angular stone that moves water without holding it.
Asphalt aggregate
Asphalt aggregate is the stone side of asphalt — the sizes that get blended into a hot-mix or cold-patch recipe at the plant.
Specialty products
Specialty products are the odds and ends that don't fit the usual categories — flagstone, boulders, ballast, glass gravel, unusual sizes …
Bedding materials
Bedding materials are the clean, washed layer that goes around a pipe, under a paver, or behind a wall before backfill goes in.