The following article aims to serve as a glass rocks buyer’s guide to help you make an informed choice before buying them from our online store.
Glass Rocks have emerged as a popular choice among customers looking to spruce up their gardens or open spaces. These small, colorful glass chunks add a delightful look to your outdoors.
What are Glass Rocks
Glass Rocks are small broken chunks of glass that is primarily used to fill garden gabions, landscaping, and decorative edges for terraces. They serve as a great alternative to natural stones and pebbles and function as a decorative, sophisticated design element for covering large outdoor and indoor areas.
In contrast to natural stones, these rocks made of glass, provide transparent surface, and an extraordinary play of colors when combined with the right lighting.
Treated and processed as bulk material, they are a cheaper alternative to natural stone products.
Properties of Glass Rocks
Bulk material made from industrial leftovers. They are long lasting, durable, weather resistant, self-cleaning and largely colored in various shades.
- Real colored glass that is thoroughly dyed
- All weather resistant and rot free compared to natural stones
- Recyclable without special processing
- Hardly any moss or algae due to non-porous surface
- Easy to clean. Rain water is adequate for cleaning
Glass Rocks in Multiple Colors
In recent years they have emerged as an essential product to design modern offices, home gardens and large commercial open urban spaces. Filling gabions with these colorful glass chunks adds a dash of glamour to your outdoors.
These products are available in a variety of colors. Different colored glass rocks are made differently and each one offer benefits that is suited to a range of customers. Turquoise colored glass rocks are residual products from unused glass production facilities or can also be manufactured during the process of smelting furnaces. Colored glass chunks receive chemical additives during the production process, which decide the color at later stages. These colored glass chunks are not necessarily waste products, but are specifically designed for their intended use. This leads to price variation for different colored glass rocks.
Color retention is high even in a dry state and therefore has an inherent advantage over natural stones.
Therefore botanical gardens around the world have used them to decorate public relaxing areas like water fountains and walking tracks.
Each color like blue has variants ranging from light blue to dark blue or light green to dark green. The most popular colors of glass rocks are:
- Blue – Cobalt Blue and Ocean Blue
- Red
- Opaque White
- Green
- Turquoise
- Yellow
Maintenance of Glass Rocks
Glass is self-cleaning, has zero almost zero algae build-up, and deteriorates lesser compared to natural pebbles. They need no special upkeep and are easy to clean. A regular spell of rain is sufficient to bring the glow back on these charming colored glass chunks. Polish on them remains over a long period of time and requires no special maintenance techniques. In the months of no rain, just spraying it with water hosepipe should clean it well.
How to use Glass Rocks
Adding colored glass chunks to your gabion transforms it into a lively garden space.The colors add brightness to your garden even on dull grey days. Mix these glass rocks with a variety of LED backlights and watch them glow in the dark. It would also be a good idea to combine them with other colored glass products like glass balls, glass marbles,glass granules, and glass pebbles.
- Excellent alternative to natural stones
- Fill garden paths, garden beds and terraces
- Fill garden gabions in a variety of colors and sizes
- Backlit garden decoration
- Large scale decoration element in interior design
- Around walking paths in urban parks and commercial spaces
Hopefully the article covered various aspects of this bulk product. At Deco Stones we have been delivering glass rocks of the highest quality to customers in Germany and around the world for over 15 years. As a pioneer of ‘Glass in Garden’ concept, our glass products for gardens are used by leading corporations in Germany. Visit our dedicated page on glass rocks to discover our collection.