How to Design Landscapes and Flower Beds With Limestone

Use small-scale limestone fragments to section off flower beds. Create edging in front of side-yard flower beds or create circular, rectangular, square or other shapes with limestone fragments to make flower beds anywhere in your yard. Limestone fragments can also be used to designate flower beds that surround your backyard's perimeter or to section a vegetable garden.

Create walls with limestone slabs against elevation changes on your property. For example, if your house is built on a hill but has no wall in front of it, stack limestone slabs upon one another to create a small walled area. Limestone slabs can also be used as small walls for landscaping a fish pond or secluded garden area, such as a small Japanese garden.

Use limestone pavers to create paths and walkways within large shrub gardens and flower beds. They may also be used to create patio areas or stairs.

Create a rock garden using limestone rocks in assorted sizes. Use pavers to create walkways within the garden and stand boulders upright as sculptures. Pile flatter stones on top of one another to make additional rock sculptures, and arrange smooth and jagged, rough stones as desired for contrast. Other options include rock gardens created around a small pond or fountain or designed with lots of tall grass varieties and small shrubs.