White rocks for landscaping: which size and which product
Start with the job, not the color chip. The white rocks for landscaping on this page fall into three families. Angular crushed grades, Ultra White Rock, White Glacier Rock and Salt N Pepper Gravel, lock together and stay where you rake them, which suits beds, borders and drives. Rounded grades, Snow White Pebbles and Himalaya White Polished Pebbles, are tumbled smooth and read softer in a courtyard or a pot. The compacting fine, White Ice D.G., packs into a firm path, while Ultra White Pathway Fines need a stabilizer mixed in to harden. If you want one white rock for landscaping a whole yard, a 3/4 inch angular grade is the safest single choice.
White stones for landscaping vs white gravel rocks
The two phrases describe the same shelf from different ends. White stones for landscaping usually means the decorative, rounded, larger material people set in beds, around pots and along a dry creek, sold from about 1 inch up. White gravel rocks usually means the working grades, 3/8 inch to 1-1/2 inch, spread over an area as ground cover or a path. The stone is the same; size and shape decide the job. Rounded stone rolls underfoot and under tires, so keep it out of driveways, while angular gravel holds a slope and a walking surface. Order a sample of either before you commit to a full load.
How much white rock do I need
Multiply the length by the width of the area in feet, then pick a depth. The coverage calculator on this page uses 1.4 tons per cubic yard for rock and gravel, so one ton covers about 115 square feet at 2 inches, about 75 square feet at 3 inches and about 58 square feet at 4 inches. Beds and ground cover take 2 inches, a walkway 3 inches, and a driveway 4 inches over a compacted base. A 10 by 20 foot bed is 200 square feet, which is about 1.75 tons at 2 inches. Size your own area with the coverage calculator.
White landscape rock at Earth Stone Rock runs $151.99 to $897 per ton picked up at the yard, with the crushed and compacting grades at the low end and the hand sorted white pebbles at the top. A half ton sack and a 50 pound bag are priced from the same stone. The table is generated from the live product prices on this store, so it is the figure you will see at checkout before delivery.
Delivery is quoted by weight and distance at checkout; enter your ZIP on any product page. White rock near me: pick up at the Rosamond or Visalia yard, or we deliver across California.
How much is white rock? The cheapest white rocks for landscaping
The cheapest white rocks for landscaping on this page are $158.99 a ton (2,000 lb) at the yard: White Glacier Rock, Salt N Pepper Gravel and the 1-1/2 inch Ultra White Rock. White Ice D.G. is $151.99 a ton for a compacting path. Ultra White Rock in 3/8 and 3/4 inch is $223 a ton, White Criva Mexican Beach Pebbles are $469.99 and Himalaya White Polished Pebbles are $897.
At about 115 square feet per ton at 2 inches deep, a $158.99 ton of white rock for landscaping costs roughly $1.38 per square foot of stone, before delivery. White rock cost per job is mostly depth and grade: a coarse 1-1/2 inch grade goes on thicker than a 3/8 inch gravel, and polished pebbles cost several times more than crushed white gravel rock.
White landscaping stones for xeriscape, pool surrounds and fire safe ground
White landscaping stones reflect heat and light instead of storing it, which is why they turn up in xeriscape plans, around pools and in the noncombustible band next to a building. Three cautions are worth hearing first. White shows dust and leaf litter more than a dark stone, so it suits open, sunny, low traffic ground. It throws real glare next to a south facing wall or a pool deck, and a coarser grade scatters less light than a fine one. In damp shade or under sprinkler overspray it can green up with algae. Hose or blow it off twice a year and it stays bright. Compare it with black landscape rock or read how to choose landscape rock color.
White landscaping rock in bulk, by the yard or in bags
Bulk white rock is the cheaper way to buy once a job passes a few dozen square feet. A 1/2 cubic foot bag of the $158.99 colors is $15.99 and covers about 3 square feet at 2 inches, so it takes about 38 bags of white rocks to equal one ton, which is over $600 in bags against $158.99 for the ton. Bags of white rocks for landscaping make sense for a pot, a small flower bed or a test patch of color.
White landscaping rock in bulk is sold by the ton, and on the product page you can also order by the cubic yard. A cubic yard weighs about 2,800 pounds, roughly 1.4 tons, and covers about 162 square feet at 2 inches; a yard of the $158.99 colors is $222.58. Snow White Pebbles are the exception: they come only in the 50 lb bag, at $45 a bag.
White decorative rocks for flower beds, gardens and yards
For white decorative rocks in a flower bed or garden, 2 inches over landscape fabric is enough. The angular white garden rocks, White Glacier Rock and Ultra White Rock, stay where you rake them on a slope or along a border. The rounded white rocks for a garden, Himalaya White Polished Pebbles and White Criva Mexican Beach Pebbles, are for pots, courtyards and the places people look at closely.
White yard rocks look best in open sun with a clean edge. In a front yard, a band of white landscape stones between the lawn and a dark mulch bed reads crisp from the street; under trees, white decorative rock shows every leaf, so keep it to the sunny side.
White gravel rocks for driveways, paths and drainage
White gravel for landscaping that people walk or drive on should be crushed, not round. For a white driveway rock, use a 3/4 inch angular grade at 4 inches over a compacted base; Salt N Pepper Gravel is the forgiving choice there because its speckle hides tire marks. Rounded white pebbles roll under tires and belong in beds, not drives.
A white crushed rock in 3/4 or 1-1/2 inch leaves open spaces between the stones, so water moves through it in a drainage trench or a dry creek. White shows the mud that washes into a drain, so keep white on the surface where it stays clean.
Is white landscape rock quartz, marble or dolomite?
It depends on the product. Ultra White Rock and Ultra White Pathway Fines are crushed white dolomite from a Northern California quarry. White Glacier Rock is a pale crushed granite with grey and cream tones, and Salt N Pepper Gravel is a speckled granite. White Ice D.G. is a white granite quartz decomposed granite. If you are looking for white quartz rock or white quartz landscape rock specifically, White Ice D.G. is the quartz material here; for marble, White Marble D.G. is sold in the decomposed granite collection. White Granite River boulders are cream white, water rounded granite sold by the pound at $0.22.
Where to buy white rocks for landscaping near me
Where can I buy white rocks for landscaping near me? Earth Stone Rock sells white rocks from two California yards, Rosamond and Visalia, and picking up is the cheapest way to buy because there is no freight. Not every white grade is kept at both yards, so call (800) 215-7372 to confirm before you drive over.
White rocks for sale on this page can also be delivered: enter your ZIP on any product page and the delivery price shows before you order. Addresses outside our delivery area are quoted by phone. Order a sample first if the exact shade of white matters to you; every white is a little different.
