Unless you are familiar with gravel for landscaping, more options exist than you likely think. Here's how to choose the right ...

Among front-yard flower bed ideas that are sure to please and are easy to achieve is to create a natural-looking flower bed by adding a few large stones and smaller rocks into your garden.

Even the grey ones have various shades and streaks of grey and white, so no two rocks ever look exactly the same in nature. Stones are a smaller variety of rocks, and they are usually around the ...

Succulent wreaths are not only visually appealing but also serve as a unique focal point in your indoor garden. Display individual succulents in clear glass containers like mason jars or glass vases.

In a world brimming with items too often discarded, upcycling — the process of transforming waste materials or unwanted ...

or a geode (a hollow stone partially filled with crystals). This kind of equipment is more for the amateur geologist than the general pebble collector, and strictly for grown-ups only. If you're ...

The rocks in our garden came from near to where the sarsen megaliths of Stonehenge are originally from in West Woods, Wiltshire, in southwest England. These stones formed in river systems where water ...

Maggy Howarth, who has died aged 79, was a specialist in decorative ... from pebbles, while the Chinese, the Moors in Spain and Renaissance designers in Italy extended the idea into the garden.

Large crystals found in geodes and other rocks are relatively rare ... allowing beryl to form semiprecious stones such as aquamarine. Minerals and gems are classified by their physical properties ...

A geography teacher in Coventry, England, found an ancient stone while weeding his garden in 2020, but the digging didn't stop from there. The finding of the stone led the teacher and researchers ...