Landscape Design

Landscaping With Stone

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Natural stone is a great choice for landscaping. Not only is it durable, but it offers a classic, timeless look. Landscaping rock provides you with a great foundation to create any type of landscaping design you wish. In order to make your garden more remarkable and unique, try adding rocks, small stones or boulders in your garden.

Generally when we think about landscaping, a picture of shrubs, plants, and trees come to mind. These things are common in any garden, however using rock to add colour and definition to your landscaping is a great idea. Most rock is very inexpensive and easy to maintain. It also doesn’t require water or other types of care like living landscaping features do. The use of landscaping rock to personalize your landscaping is quite easy.

Landscape Designing Tips:

Stone Garden Hard Landscaping

First decide where you would like to place the rock. Take into account the shape of your home and select a rock complementing your home. Any open space in the garden will be ideal for placing the rocks. You can place stone around plants, which will create a wall around them, giving a separate entity to each plant. You can separate different sections of your garden with a rock wall too, or you can use rocks for stepping stones. For stepping stones you must use flat stones to avoid the risk of accidents. Our Blue Pennant Crazy Paving is a great example of suitable stone.

If your garden has a stream or pond, adding small rocks creates the look of river banks along the sides of a river, adding a more natural look to your landscape. Do not worry about the colour of rocks not blending with your home. Once you find appropriate rocks, you can easily colour them, so that they could complement your home.

Front Garden Landscaping

Large boulders can add distinction to your landscaping. They also make the area look wider and make great centre pieces or striking focal points. You can purchase boulders that are small enough to be put in place by a few healthy individuals or ones that are so large they require a crane to put them into place. Boulders are available in all shapes, sizes, and colours to give you a very unique look. You definitely get a good deal when you invest in natural stone. It can be used to accentuate walkways and patios or to build them. If You need landscape gardeners Neath Port Talbot and Swansea Areas of South Wales  Please Contact us

New Build Construction

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Swansea House Build Stone Work Local Construction CompanyThis is a recent build completed in the Swansea Valley. The main build material was locally quarried Blue Pennant Stone. We Managed this Project from concept to completion.  All of the construction was completed by us and we  also undertook  the role of Project Manager. Our project management  services can be suited to manage all or part of your new self build project. By using  Welsh Stonework, it should help ensure completion on time and a quality of build of which you you can be proud. We have the  experience  to ensure your commission is built to budget.
Swansea Patio Construction Blue Pennant flagstone

Flagstone Paving

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Flagstone when used on floors, patios, walkways and foyers always  looks exceptional. Blue Pennant patterned stone has a formal, yet rustic appearance, which is great for creating that special touch.

Gwrhyd Pennant  fine grained riven sandstone varies from light blue/grey through to brown/rust colors.  Gwrhyd Pennant stone is quarried  from the Rhondda Beds of the Pennant series of Carboniferous Sandstones.

Riven paving has a naturally rough surface because it is hand split, or ‘riven’, from large flagstone paving slabs. The blocks are formed in sedimentary layers called strata or beds which allows the stone to be split with hand tools.

For stone sales please visit our quarried stone products page. For information about Flagstones please check out Flagstone Information page.

 

Gwrhyd Blue Pennant  Stonework  building work covering Neath ,Swansea, Port Talbot, Bridgend,Cardiff, Carmarthen, Merthyr Tydfil. National Delivery of Gwrhyd Blue Pennant Stone Products at trade prices

Exterior Stone Walls

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Some examples of  outside blue pennant stone work. Whether its a small paving area or a retaining wall to last a lifetime you can be guaranteed we will supply above and beyond your requirements. There is just something about a stone wall. Looking at one, you think of its honesty, strength, and permanence. To achieve these characteristics my crew and I have to do a tremendous amount of work that is never seen. If we lay the right groundwork, the wall will withstand the weather as well as the test of time.

There are many different products you can use to build a retaining wall—railroad ties, pressure-treated lumber, telephone poles, concrete stacking blocks—but none can match the feeling of building with stone.