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Incorporating Rocks in Your Northern Virginia Yard Leads to Beautiful, Functional Landscapes

Using landscape rocks in your yard and garden, well - rocks. Landscape rocks can create both visually appealing and highly functional spaces, and can even help your yard increase in level without actually having any elevation. Installing rocks and stones is also an ideal way to add texture to your yard and create natural pathways, retaining walls, or borders around any water features.

Read on to discover three different types of popular rocks and stones that can be placed in your yard to create different desired effects.

• Boulders can come in many different sizes and are a great way to attract visual attention to certain parts of your landscape. Boulders can be placed to mark an entrance to a garden, pond, or driveway. Small boulders work well for creating waterfalls into any water features.
• Smooth and thin flagstone is a great material for walkways and paths, as it can normally be installed on top of a layer of sand.
• Colorful river rock is an extremely popular rock landscaping option, as these rocks can be used as stepping stones, retaining walls, or even as filler in areas of your garden. River rock can be used in your flowerbeds or as a mulch alternative to help keep weeds away. What's more, river rock is extremely economical as it protects plant roots and conserves water, since the ground underneath the rock stays moist.

The natural beauty of landscaping rocks and stones are a sure way to create visual interest in any yard, and can even cut down on watering costs and weeding. Interested in incorporating rock into your Northern Virginia landscape? Contact landscape design and construction specialists Second Nature, Inc, located in Linden, Virginia. Second Nature, Inc. provides a full suite of landscaping services, patio installation, deck and sunroom construction, and more to the entire Northern Virginia and Washington, DC area.