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Rockery
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Blue Slate
Slate rockery stone. Bluish grey with some occasional brownish gold staining. Also available as individual Feature Stones
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Plum Slate
Plum to lilac, pale greenish grey and brownish orange, elongated and sometimes slabby blocks, very rustic and excellent for verticals
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Harlequin Quartzite
Starting as a bluish grey banded quartzite but now geologically transformed into a varicoloured, banded, gneissic rock with myriad veins of pink, red, white and grey granite, all cut by pale greyish green coated fracture planes.
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Green Slate
Greenish grey, stratified, fine-grained slate rockery. Its classic olive green colouring lends itself to blending in with the surrounding planting.
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Spaghetti Rock
Resembling petrified spaghetti, this is a more solid form of tufa. The limestone was deposited on and about living reeds or grasses that later decayed and disappeared. Used as a focal point in a garden or flower display, 'Spaghetti Rock' is guaranteed to be a talking point.
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Purbeck
This light yellowish grey limestone is mostly slightly slabby and can be built up in a wall effect to look like a natural outcrop. It is the form of the stone not just the colour that governs the effect.
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Weathered Limestone
An imported grey, water-worn limestone similar to the best 'Westmoreland Stone', now unavailable. Landscape designers appreciate the eroded, weathered look of this stone. It bestows a timeless quality, instantly giving the appearance of having lain there, exposed to the elements, for hundreds of years
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Firebird Gneiss
Flaming ribbons and vivid whorls of pink to red feldspar-rich granite cut through this dark greenish grey to nearly black quartzite. This dramatic rock will enhance any rockery.
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Limestone
An angular, mid to dark grey, limestone. This is a nice straightforward rockery stone.
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Meadowgrass Marble
Overall a pale grey with flashes of green. Individual pieces range from pure white to a mid-grey with black veinlets, the whole cut by veins of yellowish green serpentine. Once quarried on the Isle of Iona, such a serpentine-marble has been a favourite of sculptors and jewellers for centuries.
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Highland Red Sandstone
Historically Scotland's 'Old Red Sandstone', this variety is a warm brownish-red and distinctly slabby. Available as eye catching large slabs up to 1.5m x 1m x 0.4m, rockery stone and selected rough-coursed walling stone.
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Whinstone
Much used for walling in Scotland and the North of England- technically either a dolerite (medium grained) or basalt (fine-grained). Mostly dark grey to black occasionally speckled with white or red.
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Yorkstone
A yellowish brown, angular sandstone that has been used for centuries in one form or another. The warm texture and appearance give a very friendly feel to a rockery.
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Golden Quartzite
Pale to medium orange to brown with subordinate, contrasting pale grey and dark sepia-brown. A wonderful rock, rich in colour even when dry. Use indoors as well as out.
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Holestone
Blocks of light brown and cream limestone with flattish bases, riddled vertically with circular holes and tubes.
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