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My buddy calls me yesterday and says, "Hey, you need to load up and come out here and pick up this flagstone before I bulldoze it. " Ya man!

Used less than half of it this morning. Wife's happy. Good morning ya!

That looks great Fireballz.

Sweat equity.

Looks professional and that’s a buddy for sure.

When ya gonna use the rest?

Looks great!

Slow down big fella, enough bowing the back for today. LOL Got another bench area under the maple tree, that's next.

Those are nice stones. Hard to come by around here.
Your buddy is dozing a nice looking place.

That does look nice,what is the bedding material around the flats?

That's my yard after they're installed. The stones were at the bottom of a slope in front of an old house and most had been buried over the years. I dug em out and brought em home.

That's black mulch between the stones. Wife will plant some moss between. the stones.

Nice job.

That's very nicely done sir.

That looks really sharp.

Do you bed the stones in crushed rock or gravel to keep them from tilting or sinking or are they thick enough it’s not a concern? I’ve never done that stuff

You should....

gravel base with 1" sand on top.

Man, Fireball, that looks great!

Looks really nice. You will really like it over time.

Good job

I did similar off my back porch. I used mortar however between the flagstone.

Here’s a picture.

spent most of my younger years digging rocks out of my parents yard. They would have beat my butt for putting rocks in the yard...lol

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Any tips on maintaining landscape mulch... ?

How do you keep your mulch where you want it with out some kind of restricting barrier? Mulch in our mulched areas without a barrier always floats out where we don't want it when it rains much more than a gentle shower.

Also, in the spring with trees dropping seeds and again in Autumn with falling leaves and fruits it's been pretty much impossible to prevent or to clean up afterwards and makes mulch look like crap.

Recess the shrub beds 3-4" for the mulch. Terrace hillsides so there's no slopes to speak of. Use fine mulch that "locks up" tight making raking leaves off the top do-able. Large chunky bark sucks.

That's a nice set-up. This is just a small sitting area out on the edge of the yard. Low priority spot, mostly for looks.

Nice work there.