I dont know if it is possible, but could you get a bag of the white rocks and put them in some type of a 'bath'. Like a dye of some sorts. They cant be a natural color, can they? I have some rocks with a blue tint and streaks,but not a cobalt color.

Hi Mangomoon,

I believe what you're looking for might be called 'tumbled glass mulch'. Do a Google search and look at the images. Beautiful!

I've also seen dyed pine bark mulch in blue and deep blue recycled chopped rubber mulch. Some river stones also come in a deep blue hue. Very pretty.

I'm very timid myself but if you're not, you might try popping in at the business park and ask what company did the landscaping. Maybe they could get you on the track to finding what you're looking for.

In the meantime you could maybe try an alternative under your birdbath like I used in the belows pics of my Gardenia bush and Sweet Olive tree. It's broken storm door glass (darn lawnmower threw a rock) and some half marbles for a bit of color.

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Only use tempered glass (like windshields, storm doors, and oven windows are made out off). Anything else is too sharp (and dangerous). The tempered glass breaks into nice neat little squares and is easy to work and shift around (but please Wear Gloves!).
Check at your local auto glass repair shop. Sometimes they give broken glass away for the asking.

Hope I've been of some help. Best of luck in your search!
Aggie

WOW, Aggie, you are a fountain of information. Thanks for sharing all those tips. Your plant looks really pretty in the glass and marbles too.

hugs, Karen

Saywhatagnes, you made my day! That is exactly what I was looking for. I thank you a million!!! BTW, I am timid, I don't have the guts to ask the business park, but I do have the guts to ask my co-worker to ask on my behalf. LOLL

Our local recycle center has crushed glass available. It is usually multi color, but very pretty.

That would be really pretty. I don't know what kind of rock is blue like that either. The crushed glass sounds neat though(-:

when we went to the great smoky mountain nat'l park a few years back we saw a roadside shop with huge hunks of colored rock (maybe quartz?) i can't remember which town but i'll try to find out.

I think saywhatagnes is right. Is this what you're looking for?

http://www.closetheloop.com/products/gardenglassmulch.html

saywhatagnes, I love the way you used the safety glass in your pots. That thought would never have come to my mind. Thank you.

Be Safe, Rach

Ohhh my!!! That stuff is beautiful!!!!!!!!! Give me a couple truck loads!!!

That glass mulch (fake water) is completely amazing! I'm posting it as an active link below so more people will be apt to view it. I'm blown away by how neat this effect looks! Thanks for posting it, Rach.

Here is a link that might be useful: glass mulch

Gee, my husband's rear window in his car blew out last weekend while sitting in the driveway, apparently from the heat. We carted off a bagful of the tiny square glass fragments. Too bad they were clear glass, if they'd been a pretty color I'd have kept them, and now I'd know what to do with them!

saywhatagnes, I love your tempered glass in the pot! It almost looks like your little tree is on ice. It looks very refreshing on a hot summer day.

Tempered glass is very cool for mosaics too. You can mosaic over a painted surface and it gives it a cool 3D kind of effect.

I love that recycled glass "river!" Gosh that is beautiful. I'll have to add that to my personal inspiration photo album.

Glass mulch is great but expensive, i wanted to replace tiles in
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Will need to think about something different.
I remember in childhood we threw glass in fire and it melted. What about putting broken blue glass on hardware and put hardware about firepit?

i really love that glass mulch- my friends always tease me that i am a kind of gaudy person- let it sparkle and i'm all for it. i can see my poor UPS guy now- at Christmas he almost gets a hernia from my house alone....

In the Houston area,you can find recycled glass at Joshua's Native Plants in the Heights area..It's 80.00 per bag-ouch!!! However,it looks really good...

wow those bags are pricey but sooooooo beautiful!!!!

Galcho, I love your little blue tile pool with the rocks around it! The reflection of light on the tiles looks very "watery."

Fire must be VERY hot to melt glass. A very large bonfire can melt glass, but not sure about a small firepit...

$40 (including shipping) isn't a bad price for a bag of beautiful blue glass mulch. It would probably take many bags to make one of the glass rivers/streams shown on the website, but probably one single bag could do a very nice small pool like yours, Galcho. Thanks for the inspiration!

I went to WallMart and bought 3 small bags of mables and here how my pelican pool looks now. Not bad and only $6.00.
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Galcho, I'm hard pressed to decide which version of your little pelican pond I like best, the blue tiles or the marbles. These marbles really rival the glass mulch for realism and sparkle and "watery-ness."

One thing is for certain, I foresee a similar pond in my future. I just have to figure where to put it and how to make it moveable (so I can mow the grass around it.) I see your marbles have plastic under them. I was thinking of a shallow dish that could be sunk into the ground and removed for cleaning and mowing.

Your little pond is really cute. Even fake water adds life to a garden.

Pet stores selling aquariums, also sell blue sand, gravel, and some rocks.