We had a crushed stone path around our last house. The sides were long rectangular stone that were mortared in place. The dogs would kick some of it around, but I enjoyed using a flat rake to smooth out. About six months later, a hard rain washed a good bit of the crushed stone and we decided to do flagstone mortared in place. I would never do crushed stone paths again, but I did enjoy the sound underneath my feet.

@Allison0704 Do you have a photo of the old path with the long rectangular stone that was mortared in place?

@Allison0704 Both paths are well done! Where did you get that brick that lines the edges? What is the name of that pattern? It has very nice color changes I do not normally see in brick.

Thank you. It is the same area, before and after the flagstone was laid. The edging is not brick. The house exterior is completely covered in sandstone. Not sure what the stone edging is, our landscape company sourced. The driveways had sandstone turned vertical for edging and it does not appear to have as much variation in my photos (not shown).

Maybe just some general garden edging from a box store set flush against the base of the walls, may be set low, to keep the loose stone from travelling.

It's going to travel all over the tops of the larger stones. No way to stop that from happening.

@Allison0704 So you are saying they took limestone slabs and cut them to look like bricks on all your edging? They all have the same thickness and perfect rectangular shape. That seems like a huge amount of work. Do you have a way to take a photo of the side view up close of one of those edging pieces? How much does it look like a brick shape from the side?

When the house was built, they used sandstone edging on both driveways, guest parking, and front entrance. This was taken after DH and I bought the house and had the flagstone redone. This is the same edging used on driveways and guest parking. (Above I said limestone around driveway, but that was a mistake. Limestone is around doors, windows and water ledges, etc. I will go correct that typo.)

The stones they did along the path (was on sides and back of house, so three sides total) was brought on-site by our landscape contractor, already cut and shaped/purchased that way. As I said above, I am not 100% sure what kind of stone that was, and since we moved over two years ago, I no longer have that info on my laptop.

This is a photo of the last area we had landscaped. We did not do when we first moved in because we had not made the decision of putting in a pool or not. This lower patio was original to the house, but we added the stairs and had this area power washed.

Going to post this so I don't loose, but will try to find another photo.

DH said the edging was some type of fieldstone. He believes it is called curbstone, and depth was approx 4". When the path was first done with the crushed stone, approx 2" was above ground. When we decided to replace with flagstone, it was then even with the path.

@Allison0704 My answer disappeared so starting over. Looking at your front door edging: Is there any chance the "curbstone" is molded concrete, made to look like natural stone? If that is real stone, the brick-like shape implies someone made six surface cuts or chisels, and that would be a high-end stone, similar to a European cobblestone. I would never find something like that in my area.

No, it is real stone. Yes, it is high end. My parents built the house in 1985 and we purchased it from my mother's estate, almost a year after she and my father passed within a six week period. The house exterior is poured concrete and huge stones (not a stone veneer), steel beams, and metal interior wall studs. It is a fortress.

@Allison0704 That kind of construction is very expensive. Homes like that often cost twice as much per square foot to build, and occasionally you find homes like that being sold used where the price only reflects comparables and largely ignores the huge sunk cost of original construction. I would love to own something with real stone veneer.

In any case, you gave me a clear design path for the edging.

@westes Zone 9b California SF Bay Just saw this on an IG story and thought I would share here. They are in another state from both of us, and call it "chop block." But it is very similar to what was used along our path. This person is also having it installed to form a formal garden path.

@Allison0704 That might be ledge stone or larger molded concrete pieces, and some edges appear to be chiseled and other edges are very straight and were either sawed or molded. The color of your pieces is much nicer.

@westes Zone 9b California SF Bay a friend of mine knows the person that posted. It is real stone.

Thank you.

google 'belgian block' - very pretty, looks nice on sides of driveways and paths. I don't have it but love the look.

@mariagrazia There are a few vendors in California who advertise Belgian block, but none of those sell individual stones. They want pallet orders. There are a lot of hand-chiseled blocks being sold out of India and shipped to the US as Belgian block. I would love to find a vendor who could sell me individual stones.

@wes - Yes I see that it's usually sold by pallet. So I looked at Home Depot and they say it's 50 pieces per pallet. 50 sounds like it might go fast! Good luck!

@mariagrazia Can you link the Home Depot page you found? I located one with 75 stones.

Quality at Home Depot would be extremely variable, and what you receive might not match the photo well at all.

@wes I agree about the quality - was just trying to get a rough number for you. I have never used or even seen these. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Nantucket-Pavers-Cobblestone-10-in-x-7-in-x-4-in-Granite-Gray-Edger-Kit-50-Piece-41-Lin-Ft-21008/205187771