Why flagstone? If I were to try and sell you on the glory or attributes of flagstone, it would be an unfair challenge to be sure.
Flagstone is such a versatile and popular product that it needs no one to try and blow its trumpet because it does so well enough by itself.
It needs no sponsor or pitchman.
One brief visit to your well equipped local plant nursery or garden center will be enough to sell you on the beauty, rusticity, versatility and practicality of this magical stone.
Flagstone is easier to work with than brick or tiles.
It is also easier to lay because both brick and tile do best laid with cement.
Flagstone is more than not laid on sand or crushed stone.
So much so that flagstone has become a favorite choice by the amateur homeowner who would like to be able to boast that he or she built, with their own hands, the flagstone patio or walkway that their guest is walking on.
The ease of use because of flagstone's varied sizes and shapes and forms and the diversity of its colors and hues make flagstone one of the more popular and proven garden and building products available today.
If you feel that you do not have the imagination it takes to design your own garden using flagstone, do not despair.
It will be well worth the time and effort to visit your nearest home and garden center to thumb through the many garden and home improvement magazines to give you ideas of how and where flagstone can be used throughout your garden and even your home.
Better still, sign up for one or more of your home improvement's free classes that they offer on 'how to' lay and use flagstone.
As they will surely tell you, you do not have to be a mason to lay flagstone and to do such a good job that you can boast to everyone that you are the builder of these amazing creations.
So, your class is over and you have finished going through all the magazines on the shelves.
What do you do next? Well, one valid and useful suggestion is to drag that drawing pad or notebook from where it has been shelved and, with pen in hand, sit on a comfortable chair and try to look objectively at your garden and general outdoor area.
Without a doubt and within a short time, your creative juices and your imagination will surely begin to work together and before you know it, you will have put down on paper many of the wonderful garden projects that can be built using that versatile, charming and rustic stone known as flagstone.
If you don't mind sharing the glory with someone else, then invite one of your friends to sit with you and brainstorm together on the whats and hows and how-longs and before you know it, you will both be bragging and boasting about how easy and effortless and satisfying and enjoyable all your garden projects have been.
It is right at this point that your friend will turn to you and say "okay, now it's my turn.
When can you come over and help me out?".
Now look at what you have done, you and 'flagstone'!