Where to source rocks and logs

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This is probably a really stupid question but it's my first time looking into this. I'm making a wild container pond which is quite high off the ground. I need to make some steps up to it and add some rocks inside it to allow small animals to get into it and out of it. I can't dig the container any deeper into the ground.

My question is, where do you get small numbers of rocks and logs from? I've been looking online and can only seem to find rocks in large quantities (like a £200 big sack of them) and logs I can only see either firewood or fancy decorative logs. I've looked in places like B&Q and can't seem to see what I need. I just need a chunk of a tree trunk that could sit next to my little container pond and act as a step, and a few rocks.

Most garden centres will stock loose rocks that you can buy for rockeries and alpine gardens.

As to logs , maybe a walk in the woods for any fallen branches or a timber yard might have some.

Garages/petrol stations often sell bags of logs but they'd be uniformly cut up.

Driving around in rural areas you might come across handwritten signs saying 'logs for sale.'

Check out Facebook Marketplace - usually people will sell off rubble, stones, logs, wood off-cuts etc quite cheaply.

Thanks for the suggestions 😊

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/786718764/log-pile-habitat-wood-pack-environment I had some of these for my garden was v pleased with them.

I would ask you to consider that anything ‘lying around’ in the countryside still belongs to someone else, and presuming it can be taken is, essentially, theft. Most landowners won’t mind smaller finds being removed but it’s difficult to drawn the line between that small take and a boot full of wood on a regular basis. Also be mindful of piles of fallen wood, often built for wildlife habitation.