How to find rare landscaping materials locally
Uncommon items like pine nuggets and decomposed granite are rarely stocked by nearby suppliers, forcing professionals to either buy massive bulk quantities from big-box stores or hunt down specialty regional distributors. This lack of local availability makes it nearly impossible to finish specific design projects without driving long distances or dealing with excessive shipping hurdles.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1buying individual bags from big box stores like Home Depot, Lowe's, or Walmart
- 2switching to alternative materials like triple shredded mulch
- 3Searching stone yards further out in Westchester or Long Island
- 4Looking for a decent substitute material that can be stabilized
- 5Buying bagged product from big-box home improvement stores if available regionally
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“unfortunately we don’t stock pine nuggets casually and nowhere around us does, only option is to purchase it bulk from Home Depot/lowes, it takes 180 bags to complete just their back yard”source ↗
“I'm a garden designer working on a project in Brooklyn, NY. I really want to use decomposed granite for a path through the planting, but am finding it difficult to track down locally”source ↗
Where this came up
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