The shipping will drive the price up tremendously.

And by "large", how large?

Check your local quarries, anything else and the cost is going to be prohibitive if you want anything of size.
Mike

I would settle for 12 inch by 12 inch, close to that I should say, I don't want a perfect square rock! I figured the shipping would be high, but I'm checking Ebay now and then. The local quarry seems to have just gravel that is whitish grey. I'm in a small town Pittsburgh is the closest big city and that's about 50 miles away.I think the rose quartz is found in the western part of US if not mistaken. Sorry post is late but when checking this site there were no responses for a while.Thanks

Check your local gem and mineral shops, lapidary shops, or look on line for them. I'm sure there are some in Pittsburg. There is usually a gem and mineral show somewhere near at some point, usually in the spring or fall. Get hold of a copy of Lapidary Journal or another gem magazine and look at show schedules. You will find all the rock you want at one of those. As lapidarists, we have lots of rock that we've bought over the years at shows for little cash. Somebody that belongs to a gem and mineral club may have something you want, if there is a club in your area. You might also find that info in LapJo. Also check the classified ads in the gem and mineral magazines.

Look on Google for Pittsburg, Pa gem and mineral clubs, there are many listings for shows and shops.

Thanks for the tip. A friend of mine is going out west and I have her on the hunt for some also.

In my opinion a yard with a lot of different colored rocks on display from all over looks like it was designed by a Rock Shop owner. It has no continuity. Those kind of rocks belong on a shelf.
I would use rock from one quarry and learn how to place them as outcroppings in a manner so they look like they belong. Almost any rock by itself looks out of place and contrived, especially if the rock placed a few feet away is from a different part of the country and a different color.
I realize that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the more you learn about good landscape design, which includes rock placement, the better your garden will look to all who see it.
Hope this, 'another way to see it', helps.
Mike

Here's an example of what I'm trying to get across.
I try to use rocks as big as I can handle. Too small and the effect is hokey in my opinion. These were purchased from a quarry and dumped at the top of the slope and slid downhill on channel steel and placed. Two people with metal bars and shovels can accomplish quite a bit with a little practice working with each other. I put this together when I was in my fifties. I'm sixty seven and retired now. I will be placing more rocks in this landscape by spring.
Mike

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You have a nice yard. I was going to put the rose quartz chunk in the middle of a raised bed of shade perennials in a shaded area. The bed is made of white block and is about 3 ft wide by 7 ft long.The pink will go good with the wall block. I am going to try the natural look like you have in another area. I have a pile of rock waiting to be placed. I collected them from a construction site a few miles from home, so they will look natural. I hope I have enough of them. Some are very large and I don't know I didn't rupture something picking them up!Lol. I want to make a low wall in another area with some of them. I know I need to make a foundation at least half of the walls height.And fill that with gravel.I am new to stone wall building so this should be interesting.I have smaller stones to fit in the spaces between large rocks.Well, I am rambling, anyway, I know the pink rose quartz will stick out and not look natural but this is a area where that look is wanted. I have yet to get the quartz, my friend that is going to get it for me from Arizona will not be back to Pa for months so I'll have to be patient.

I have a few places where things don't look natural also, but they look good to me! That's all that counts.
Here's the Mother of All Wind Chimes and a telephone booth. LOL Some soon to be firewood also. And a wood, rock, and Sedum combo cooperative creation.
Mike
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Here is a link that might be useful: My garden

If you aren't a landscape pro you should be! I was never one for evergreens too much, I have some but not alot but yours look really good. I may add more to my garden areas.I have to be sneaky about it cause the ol man thinks we have too many trees as it is.I have Norway and Colorado spruce, Sequoia,white pine American holly sowed Hemlock seeds. The rest are deciduous. So my yard is pretty bare looking in winter.I have yew shrubs here and there to. I want to get Taxus baccada possibly but if they are really slow growers I may not.Could you name some of your evergreens that are zone 6 or less hardy?