Penn Blue Sandstone Pavers
Penn Blue Sandstone is one of the most versatile forms of landscaping rock due to its color and physical properties. It’s a form of sandstone, so it cleanly cuts into many different shapes, allowing it to fill the same role as concrete pavers, but with considerably more elegance and a distinct natural feel.
Once Penn Blue comes out of the ground it can be bought in a variety of regular and irregular shapes, including what we offer in our landscape showroom. Landscapers most often pick rectangular pavers for roles such as the surface around a swimming pool or an inset path to the front or back doors of a house. Penn Blue is ideal for these roles for two reasons. First of all, people enjoy the blue-grey color that gives the sandstone its name. Secondly, while it cuts quite smooth, as a sandstone it still has the granulated texture that, while practically invisible to the naked eye, is enough to give anyone walking on it traction even in wet weather. (This is a reason why it’s an excellent material for the areas around swimming pools.)
You can also use thick Penn Blue pavers for purely decorative purposes. Stacking a few large pavers to create a vertical element in your landscape like a rock pile or (assuming you have the expertise) a wall makes a dramatic statement that breaks up a flat yard.
When you use Penn Blue, remember that it’s a natural, quarried material. That means there’s no “factory standard.” While we only stock high quality landscaping rocks of this (or any other) type, every paver has a different color, based on how it’s been shaped by natural processes. Don’t try to find perfectly matching Penn Blue pavers, but understand that different shades and tones work together, creating a rustic natural look instead, of the bland but consistent colors of artificial solutions.
In fact, we suggest that you play up the natural qualities of Penn Blue Sandstone in your landscaping designs. See how a rough, rustic look would benefit the space by using tabled rocks and irregular pavers. Tumbled rocks have rough edges. Just as you might guess, irregular pavers don’t interlock closely because each one has a unique outline. Try fitting them together like puzzle pieces over a path with room for sand and earth between the landscaping rocks.
Like we said, come to our landscape showroom to see more, or contact us today with your questions.
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