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Make your own landscape rock boulders and concrete rocks and artificial stone designs.

Rock landscaping with feature stone and boulders is something that many of us have had aspirations to do. Most of us though would know the list of why's you can not landscape in this exciting and naturalistic manner.

The big three are prohitive costs, site accessibility and being able to purchase what you are looking for in the first place.

We are proud to offer a relatively simple yet stunningly realistic and environmentally compatible way of creating your own feature rockeries
and backyard landscapes.

With your own custom rock designs making concrete landscape rock boulders has never been easier with our recipes for artificial Rock.

 

Please use our free landscape design ideas for small and large gardens.


Some time back we received an enquiry as to whether you can grow plants near or around these concrete based custom made rocks or would a toxicity leach from the materials used in the making
of the artificially based rock make planting restrictive. The answer was simply to send the inquirer this image and say that if you clean up any cement residue around the rock base once you have completed your rockbuilding and colouring and spread some organic compost around the base, any excess alkaline that can come from neat portland cement used in concrete and mortar mixes will be neutralized.
When looking at images of different interpretations of artificial rockmaking on the net this author has been struck by one very common denominator in many of the pictures presented. It is the sheer lack of
plant life used in balance or connection with synthetic rockwork. In this image there are a few visual standouts to take note of. The first is the composition in the placement
of the hand custom garden boulders and the second is the fantastic use and variation of the plants used in the design. The result is that the garden boulders do not sit like stark monoliths but are an integral part, a three dimensional part of a breathing, living and constantly evolving landscape.

This image reveals a different angle of the same rock garden. From this view you get the idea by the plants that this work is quite young in its completion which is correct as at the time of taking this photo the garden was all of fifteen months old.

It may be a young garden but it has as its architectural centre these large landscape boulders that look some thousands of years old but are in fact handmade with a paint brush and sand and cement and not yet two years old.
This a Just completed piece of work and for me spells out one clear message and that is ' welcome'. The actual placement of the artificially made stepping stones and the backdrop invites the viewer in to look
around and explore. An interesting contrast in this design is the placement of one 'real' bluestone placed to the left of the first custom made stepping stone in the foreground. The use of bits of real rock, stones and pebbles in and around your faux rock constructions along with planting can more often than not add some very nice and interesting compositions.

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