Call me a romantic but I much prefer seeing some greenery than seeing exposed aggregate or concrete. Unfortunately, the trend at the moment is to replace gardens and green lush front curbs with pavers or decorative concrete alfresco areas and patios.
But there are ways to add some green to your exposed aggregate driveway or concrete pool area.

Pots and planters might be an obvious choice but how to choose them and how do you actually plant a seed and what should you even try to grow?

What about vertical gardens? How to start? What plants should you choose? how do tend to them? 
Raised gardens beds could also be a good option if you are looking at growing a lot of flowers, veggies or fruits, provided you have the time to care for them!
For the gardeners out there, build a greenhouse. 

Our Exposed Aggregate Concreting is a decorative concrete that has natural stones from river beds and quarries hand seeded into a concrete base. We have to qualities concrete compared to another.  Our team of knowledgeable concrete contractors can offer their expert opinion on the best design, installation and finish for your concrete floor.

Aggregate, Sand & Gravel

Corliss Resources, Inc offers many types of gravel, sand and rock products that can be used in variety of applications.  These products can be scheduled for delivery directly to your job site or you can pick it up from anyone of our plant locations (LINK to map). 

In certain situations, CRI can perform haul off or exporting services by removing from your job site certain soils, aggregate and concrete waste material.  Truck rental is also available.  For more specific information please contact Gravel Dispatch. 

Below is a summary of the products that CRI offers and some possible uses.  If you are interested in a product that you do not see on this list, please call to check availability as this list is only a sampling of our products.

Utility and Washed Sand

Used as a base for pavers and other residential applications like sand boxes or as a leveling base for portable swimming pools. Ideal for backfilling utility ditches.

Washed Pea Gravel

Great for drainage projects, sub grade under concrete, some walkways and patios, small dog kennels, or under swings sets and in other kids play areas.

3/4” Clean Crushed

Used as a decorative rock. Works well in walkways and has great drainage characteristics. Not a good rock to be used in gravel driveways.

7/8" Washed

Good drainage rock. Can be used as the aggregate in concrete.

1 1/4" Clean Crushed

Great for walking paths. Used as a capillary break layer under concrete slabs.

1 1/4" Crushed

Also called “CSBC” – Crushed Surfacing Base Course, this gravel is good for heavy traffic driving areas or as a base rock.

1 1/2" Washed

Primarily used for drainage projects and decorative rock in landscaping.

2" to 4" Quarry Rock

This rock is excellent for spreading into muddy bogs on roads and driveways. Good for roadways into and out of job site; as the truck leaves the jobsites the rock will scrape clean the tire treads so that less mud will be tracked onto the road.

4" to 8" Quarry Rock

This rock can be used for building small flower bed walls. Also used for industrial roadways. Like 2” to 4” rock, good for roadways into and out of job site.

Rockery Rock

Sizes vary from ½ man to 5 man rocks – these are very large rocks that can be used for building retaining walls. Also used as placement rocks for decorative purposes in landscaping projects.

Sand and Gravel Mix

This is sand and gravel that has been premixed to be used in concrete. Perfect for small home DYI projects that utilize smaller amounts of concrete, such as fence postholes.