Stone
Willowlee Sod Farms offers a variety of different stones to fit your landscaping needs, from decoration to preventing weed growth and retaining moisture — we’ve got you covered.
River Stone
Willowlee Sod Farms River Stone is a great quality, durable stone that is ideal for use in high-traffic areas. River Stone looks great in any landscaping project and will add natural colour to your garden.
River Stone benefits include:
- Adds a finished look to any garden or landscaping project
- Helps to prevent erosion
- A more permanent alternative to mulch
- Increased prevention against weeds
- Great for lining your garden or building a pathway
- Attractive alternative to gravel
- Offers improved drainage
Pea Stone
Our Pea Stone is versatile and is commonly used for driveways, pathways, patios, and many other landscaping projects. This Pea Stone is great at preventing weeds and it will improve the drainage in your garden and/or lawn. This smooth stone is very sturdy and is great for high traffic areas. Pea Stone can be used for both aboveground projects and underground projects – it is very good for pipe bedding and drainage.
Pea Stone benefits include:
- Looks great in flower beds and gardens
- Retains heat, which can help certain plants thrive
- Reduces weed growth
- Fewer pests are attracted with pea stones
- Helps to control erosion
- Improves drainage
- The smooth texture makes these stones easy to walk on with any footwear or barefoot
3/4 Clear Stone
Willowlee Sod Farms’ 3/4 Clear Stone is ideal under slabs of concrete, on driveways, for drainage in weeping beds, as a bedding material for septic tanks, or in window wells. Our 3/4 Clear Stone has great drainage because it contains no filler material, like sand. The stones are also nice for decoration in landscaping projects.
3/4 Clear Stone benefits include:
- Prevents weed growth
- Holds moisture in the soil
- Does not attract insects
- Protects your plant roots from the sun
- Can be used as a permanent mulch
- Ideal for areas that need good drainage
- Does not blow away
- Will not rot
- Improves flower growth, due to the improved drainage and weed prevention
- Can be used as a base for cement
- Makes great bedding material for septic tanks
5/8 Crushed Stone
Our 5/8 Crushed Stone is a high-quality stone that is easy to roll, tamp, or vibrate into place when creating a stable surface. Great for your landscaping projects, it is commonly used for driveway repairs and installation, tank and pipe bedding, and other construction or landscaping projects. This stone is ideal for drainage in your yard and your landscaping projects.
5/8 Crushed Stone benefits include:
- Locks to form a stable surface after tamping or rolling
- Great sub-base for roads, driveways, and pavers
- Construction fill
- Helps to prevent erosion
- Provides traction for railroad tracks
- Used with cement
- Great as asphalt and concrete mix
- Good use with concrete blocks
- Ideal for retaining walls, driveways, roads, and paver base
- Makes a great material for drainage systems
Limestone Screening
Willowlee Sod Farms’ Limestone Screening is made from high-quality limestone, makes an excellent stone foundation for pathways, and is ideal under patio stones as a base to level out the ground.
Limestone Screenings benefits include:
- Great drainage helping to Increase groundwater
- Reduces the growth of weeds
- Ideal as a base for driveways and roadways
- Prevents shore erosion
- Durable and tough
- Does not need a lot of maintenance or repairs
- Ideal for a wide variety of landscaping projects
- Versatile appearance means that it looks great with any landscaping project
- Easy installation
- Used as the final layer of levelling when using patio stones
- Filled with nutrients
- Increases flower, lawn, vegetable and other plant growth
- Regulates your soil’s pH levels
Sand
Willowlee Sod Farms’ Sand is premium quality and can be used for a variety of different projects. Sand can be great to add to your landscaping projects and it has many benefits that will help your yard thrive. It is a versatile material that is useful all year round.
Sand benefits include:
- Holds moisture for a long time, which is great for gardens when mixed with Premium Garden Soil
- Adds good drainage to your garden
- Contains mineral particles that add nutrients
- Great to fill in spaces between stones and interlocking
- Suitable for use when levelling land
- Holds more heat than soil, which can be good for certain plants
- Fertilizer nutrients can act faster when sand is used
- Good for facilitating transplants
- Offers improved irrigation as water is absorbed faster
- Good for aerating soil
- Useful in the winter after each snowfall