Better Homes and Gardens (Australia)
TYPES OF STONE
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Cremnosedum
Stone types vary according to your region and it makes sense to buy locally to reflect your environment, plus save on delivery costs. You can get stones smooth or textured, straight cut or crazy, and choose from an amazing range of colours. Here’s a round up of the most popular types of stones available.
If you want honey hues, this is for you. But you also need to decide on texture – from coarse to smooth – and its subtle tones of white, yellow, rustorange or streaked with all of them, depending on its composition or geographic location. It’s durable and easy to maintain. Expose your dark side with this stone, also known as basalt. The blue and grey colour – oen streaked with
Sandstone Bluestone SANDSTONE
gold, rust, silver, occasionally pink or purple, even green – is distinctive and sustained over a long time. It’s very durable and has slip- and scratch-resistance. When polished, li le surface holes sometimes emerge, which add a unique dimension. Its highly polished finish makes it beautifully elegant, but it’s also very strong, durable and easy to clean. You can get
Granite BLUESTONE GRANITE
a coarse finish, called ‘exfoliated’, if you need a slip-resistant product. Colour co-ordinate your garden and pick from black, grey, blue, salmon and red pigments. Choose this for its velvety feel, the so, blue-grey colours and the elegant straight and flat cuts that come with a delicate feathering. Grey is the perfect colour for highlighting the colours in your garden. It will make your flowers pop!
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