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Does the patio surface/rockery wall exist today?

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NewspaperTaxis · 31/08/2020 17:04

Doing some outside/garden refurbishment of the family pile that hasn't been done for half a century.
I suppose we're looking for the same again but then there's the question of do we go for something new? And more to the point, does the same again even exist?

The front driveway/path and concrete surface around the house is of the same stony patterned style but I've no idea the name of it. It looks alright but I don't see it come up on any search engine (see picture). Instead all I get variations on a paving design.

What we have segues into a rockery wall made up of big rocks - quite a nice design if susceptible to weeds over the years - but again, I don't see this design on any website possibly in the same way you don't see pebbledash walls, for being naff.

Does anyone have a name for these two designs? I could try something completely different, but we've been happy with this.

Does the patio surface/rockery wall exist today?
Does the patio surface/rockery wall exist today?
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JustGiveMeTwoMinutes · 31/08/2020 17:13

I think the surface effect could be described as terrazzo (sp?) And the walls could be done with those wire cages?

NewspaperTaxis · 31/08/2020 17:37

Not bad, it's something like that but it's not tiled. It's a long stretch of pattered concrete, the sort you get in a drive but it buckled in the long hot summer of 76 - perhaps a reason, I grant you, why tiles might be better?

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MereDintofPandiculation · 31/08/2020 17:46

Exposed aggregate concrete?
www.pavingexpert.com/decorative-concrete-surfaces

Your wall appears to be made of flint nodules.

easythatsfragile · 04/09/2020 18:28

The patio surface is just concrete mixed with gravel that has had the surface worn away over time.

As another pp says, the wall is made of flints, probably collected from round the garden itself and made use of. My dad did the same years ago, when they moved into a new-build house and found the garden entirely filled with with flints. He made cobbled paths out of some of them, and a rockery out of the rest.

NewspaperTaxis · 11/09/2020 13:35

Many thanks for your responses here, esp the one about exposed aggregate concrete from MDP...

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