Garden Edging Stone Bluestone Pavers

August 8, 2016 By

Garden Edging Stone – Outdoor Bluestone Pavers

Apprehensive of using stone to make DIY garden edging stone? This garden edging outdoor Bluestone in our display area was made by a 19 year old with no landscaping or gardening experience at all.

  1. First a 20cm deep trench was dug & then crusher dust was shovelled in to a depth of around 15cm.
  2. Placed the ‪‎Bluestone/Basalt‬ into the crusher dust. A string line was used to make sure each Bluestone pitcher was level.
  3. After all the Basalt/Bluestone pitchers were laid a slurry or mortar was placed against the back of the pitchers to stop them moving. (in case a car backed into them in our car park).

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Bluestone Garden Edging Stones DIY

May 19, 2016 By

Bluestone Garden Edging Stones – DIY Guide

Apprehensive of using stone to make DIY garden edging stones? This garden edging in our display area was made by a 19 year old with no landscaping or gardening experience at all. [Read more…]

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Basalt Outdoor Pavers Round in Garden show

March 21, 2016 By

Basalt Outdoor Pavers Round Shape

Basalt outdoor Pavers/Bluestone round shape features in one of the achievable garden project in this year’s Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show. Bulleen Art & Garden is one of our wholesalers and supply this project.

Basalt also call Bluestone in Victoria, Australia, Edwards Slate & Stone was the first Australian company to import Bluestone outdoor pavers for the domestic market, our experience counts.

Achievable gardens

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Which Is The Best Bluestone?

February 2, 2016 By

Which Is The Best Bluestone?

An Overview

Which Is The Best Bluestone? This is a commonly asked question and the answer is not straightforward. Without going into the technical aspects of Bluestone, which this article does not attempt to do, I will try to give a summary of the situation in Victoria as it stands now. For those who like the science behind this summary, a good article to read is contained within Discovering Stone issue 22 2012.

Since the foundation of Melbourne City Bluestone, which has the geological name of Basalt, has featured strongly in our churches, walls, foundation stones and all aspects of building. Our local Bluestone responds well to traditional methods of fixing using mortar (a mix of sand and cement). As a result Bluestone had an excellent reputation as a building product. [Read more…]

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Bluestone Pavers Outdoor Garden Setting

January 16, 2015 By

Bluestone Pavers – Outdoor Garden Setting

This is an inspiring Bluestone garden setting project in Canterbury Melbourne. The rectangular elements contained within this landscape setting combine and complement each other.
Edward Slate and Stone provide Quality Bluestone pavers for all landscaping purposes, visit our showroom to see our full product range.

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