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Do you know where landscaping boulders come from? I must admit, before writing this article I’d never given it much thought. Similarly, when Sunset’s editor-in-chief, Hugh Garvey, needed boulders for his front yard in Los Angeles, he didn’t know exactly where to buy them either.

Do you know where landscaping boulders come from? I must admit, before writing this article I’d never given it much thought. Similarly, when Sunset’s editor-in-chief, Hugh Garvey, needed boulders for his front yard in Los Angeles, he didn’t know exactly where to buy them either.

That’s when landscape designer David Godshall of Terremoto took him to Sunburst Decorative Rock in Irwindale, California—and what he found there was a revelation. “It looks like a massive quarry—like a location in the movie Heat,” Garvey says. “An amazing, unexpected, urban landscape that you wouldn’t know is there.”

So began an education of what it would be like to pick out, as Garvey calls them, “organic LEGOs” from a stone yard.

What makes boulders so special? “A boulder, to me, is an exclamation point [in the garden],” says Molly Sedlacek of OR.CA landscape design. “It should be used sparingly, with caution, intention, and vibrato.”