The Best Landscape Materials in Lafayette, Indiana

High-quality topsoil ran through a shredding machine to break up the lumps and make it easy to work with and rake out.

Composted Topsoil

Organic materials, used for blending with other soil mixes.

Clay

Good water storage qualities, smallest particle soil, tightly packed together with very little or no airspace. Clay is the densest and heaviest type of soil. It does not drain well or provide space for plant roots to flourish.

Sand

Good for a drainage system, formed by the breakdown or fragmentation of rocks like granite, limestone and quartz.

Pea Gravel

Used in fish tanks, walkways, swimming pools, or other places where foot traffic occurs- typically ½” or smaller in size.

River rock

Used for aesthetic purposes, in flower beds, lining a walkway, driveway, or edging. Larger than pea gravel and typically 1”-2” in diameter.

Crushed Stone

Used as an aggregate for concrete, mechanically crushed stone is usually limestone or dolomite.

Millings

Used where you would use concrete, fresh asphalt, or substrate like gravel. Made of recycled asphalt, it is lower in cost and environmentally friendly.

Crushed Concrete

Used in Walkways / Pathways, Garden Beds, Retaining Walls, and Drainage. Mostly chosen for aesthetics, it is sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Clean stone

Used for the top layer of a stone driveway or other places where some minor compaction is not harmful. Screened crushed stone, but some stone dust is still mixed in.