Garden slate - where did you get yours?

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I seen slate like the attached photo in lots of front gardens around where I live. It looks so neat and fresh, and I'd love to replace the stone in our front garden with it. Where do people get it from normally? How much (kg) per sqm will I need?

Thank you!

Bump!

Not a clue how much you’ll need I’m afraid (though I find things like this the answer is always more than I expected) but I’ve had plum slate chippings from Wickes before (they were quite small shards) and I’ve recently seen bigger chunks in my local Morrisons.

Thank you. Is it called plum slate chipping then?

Or is it called paddle stone? I'm so confused by the terminology. I just want to ask specific neighbours where they got theirs!

When I’ve seen it is just been called slate chips, but the plum is the purple shade in the top section on your picture or there was a more blue grey colour like the bottom flowerbed.

I’ve just had a look, Wickes do these www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Decorative-Plum-Slate-Chippings---Jumbo-Bag/p/100425 in plum, green or blue, they look like smaller pieces than your picture though?

You will need loads more than you think . Any builders merchant will sell it in tonne bags which will be cheaper than buying from a diy place.

Paddlestones are just larger chips that have been tumbled and tend to be a bit more expensive. Most garden centres sell slate chippings. The top border is plum and the lower boarder looks like blue. If you need loads a builder centre can deliver in bulk.

I'm tired so excuse the rubbish post but it's slate you're looking at, either plum, blue, grey or green. Comes in 40mm or 20mm, 20mm good in a small area, 40mm better if you're covering the whole garden for example. Places like supermarkets and home bargains will do handy bags of 20mm slate, usually blue IME. Larger garden centres and builders merchants will do bulk of the 40mm, we've just had quotes of £60-100 bulk bags (excl delivery), coverage depends on depth you want but there's online calculators.

No idea how much you'll need but they sell that sort of thing at our local builders merchant by the bagful. They also had it in B&M @3 bags for £12 I think.
If you need a very large quantity you can probably get it delivered in 1 ton dumpy bags.