Stone Flower Bed Design Ideas

A stone flower bed can add a beautiful and stylish focal point to many areas of your garden or landscape. You can use a stone flower bed to serve as a scenic stage for your most prized plants and flowers or to simply protect them from kids and pets that might easily trample them. Here are some design ideas for your stone flower bed.

Types of Stone Flower Beds

The most common and easiest to create type of stone flower bed is simply a line of rocks surrounding your flower bed.

• You can use any kind of rock or stone for the flower bed, and you can even mix and match different types of stones and rocks to achieve your desired design affect.
• When creating this type of simple stone flower bed border, lay down some sort of weed barrier cloth of material to help prevent weeds from growing up between the rocks and stones.
• Another type of stone flower bed is a raised stone flower bed. This type of flower bed is usually created by building retaining walls from stones or breaks and filling the raised area with dirt and soil before planting flowers and plants.

These types of stone flowerbeds can be particularly beautiful and create a stage for flowers and plants that you want to draw attention to. This type of raised stone flower bed can be built to any height that suits you, and you can even build several raised stone flowerbeds at different heights to provide variation and contrast to your landscape.

Types of Stones for Stone Flowerbeds

Regardless of the type of stone flowerbed you want to create, you will have plenty of options for rocks or stones to use in your flower bed. There are also many sources available from where to get your stones - and sometimes, you won't even have to pay for them.

• Larger garden nurseries and home improvement stores sell landscaping rocks or stones in various shapes, sizes and colors.
• You can get nice stones from local rock quarries in your area or even from professional landscaping supply companies. Most companies sell stones or rock by weight and generally do not price stones individually.
• You may have beautiful rocks or stones on your property that you can use, and this will allow you to more accurately match the landscape in your area as well as provide free rocks and stones for your stone flower bed.
• Another way to get beautiful stones for your flower bed is to visit larger creeks and rivers in your area. As long as the creek or river is not on private property or there is a local ordinance or law that prohibits the removal of the stones, you can find some beautiful river rocks and stones that will add an aged look to your stone flower bed.
• You can always choose to purchase common red masonry blocks or even concrete blocks to build retaining walls for raised stone flowerbeds. Constructing stone flowerbeds from brick or concrete block is relatively easy, and generally will just require some mortar mix and a little hard work.