Not sure about the rest of you, but those who love native plants will appreciate how wonderful they look when framed by rocks, particularly large lumps of granite and sandstone. The obvious question is : is there an environmentally responsible source for this rock ? I would imagine that building sites must be one source, but I doubt that the owner of the local garden supply yard spends too many sleepless nights wondering where their rock supply originated.

I have the same qualms when buying river pebbles - wonderful stuff, but surely the river needed those pebbles more than I do ?

Cheers,

Artie

as for river stones - I agree with you. You can make your own by getting fragments from masons or quarries and tumbling them in a cement mixer

I'll do without!

Only trouble was they were not the right colour, but as it was a spur of the moment thing as they were emptying the commercial concrete mixer I had no time to go and buy any of that coloured powder..The odd shaped ones were very useful down the chook yard keeping the huge hill of soil in place that the chook bath in, so none were wasted...Yes I was shocked at the price of those fibreglass ones too......Cheers...MM.

PS. But do they pebbles come from our rivers, after all everything else comes from over the seas.