A Review on Artificial Stones for Garden Construction
Jing Wei Xu · Guangdong Landscape Architecture · 2007
Stone conveys history and tradition as an important garden material. The characteristics of stone with its culture meaning, make it an absolutely necessary material in garden building. But stone components are always expensive because they are hard to shaping. Fortunately, people invented artificial stones to replace nature stone in garden building. Artificial stones have almost same appearance of natural stone, but they are much cheaper, stronger, easier to install, and can be manufactured in factory. Artificial stones including Cast Stone, GFRC, GFRS, GFRP, have good future in our country.