River Rock Landscaping Ideas
Add a natural feel to your outdoor area with river rock landscape ideas. From little pea gravel to stones, boulders and bigger rocks, river rocks attain their smooth, rounded shapes from the water’s movement in natural rivers. Use river rock landscaping to add an organic feel to outdoor features like pathways, edging, flower beds or boxes, gravel verandas, and more.
Below are some river rock landscape ideas in a range of settings and designs for inspiration.
Stone Pathways
Stone pathways combine two sizes and colors of river rock with large natural pavers. Dividers split up mulched spaces from gravel for keeping things looking orderly.
Gravel veranda
Seating areas that highlight a long fire feature and contemporary wicker chairs on a simple pea gravel veranda. Placing landscape edgings made of granite and slabs for steps makes for a slick, streamlined look.
Dry Riverbed for Drainage
When your property has drainage problems, or sloping areas where run-off is an issue, creating a dry riverbed could help, as well as being an appealing to your landscape. Some versions use different sizes of river rock to create a stable bed and are anchored additionally with lush plantings.
Gravel Fire Pit Area
Somewhat like the veranda, except this one features an ending with a fire pit. Placing landscape edgings made of granite makes for a slick, streamlined look.
Patio Container Garden
If you wish for an outdoor garden area but don’t have fertile soil or the time for its upkeep, think about a gravel patio sitting area with potted plants. This one also has oblong wood planters with Mediterranean herbs.
Pea Gravel Pathway
Once your area is level, creating a gravel pathway only requires some landscaping fabric, an optional covering of sand, some rocks or bricks as edging, and a rake for spreading the pea gravel.
It’s a project that can be accomplished in a day and is going to vastly improve the form and function of your area. Pea gravel makes for comfy, user-friendly walking surfaces also.
Colorful River Rock Garden
Your local material supplier may have an assortment of sizes, colors, and textures available for your rock garden, including matte surfaced river rock or gleaming stones, and colors varying from black to white, greys, purple, tans, blue, or even pink.
Pea Gravel Driveway
Gravel is perfectly easy to use material for driveways or pathways and can be easier to maintain than black top in places that freeze during winter. The gravel’s lighter coloring also provides a diverse and somewhat warmer attractiveness compared to asphalt. The pea gravel works well with the larger slates for creating a patio area at the entrance of houses.
Rock Gardens + Groundcovers
A simple and attractive garden design can be created with pea gravel, larger river rocks, and an assortment of low growing groundcovers.
Select groundcovers that appreciate good drainage and don’t require too much water, such as creeping sedums, creeping phlox, creeping bellflowers/campanula, and dianthus. All of these are perennials that can be removed and divided effortlessly.
Weedless Flower Beds
These flower beds use landscaping fabric with preferences for plants and river rock gravel rather than mulch for an appealing look that works for keeping weeds at a minimum.
Not all plants are appropriate to this type of planting and favor a more conventional soil culture. However, a lot of plants adjust comfortably, including a lot of shrubs, and most drought-tolerant plants like salvia and sedums.
Landscape River Rocks Phoenix by A&A Materials, Inc.
A & A Materials, Inc., located in Scottsdale, Arizona, offers River Rock for your landscaping needs. Call us at 480-990-0557 for more information.
