Hard Goods
Thornapple River Nursery offers top-of-the-line quality products to enhance your landscape. From boulders, bricks, topsoil, stone, edging, seed and fertilizer, we have what you need to create a beautiful outdoor living room.
The following are examples of the products we regularly stock. Please understand that these are natural materials and the actual product you receive may vary slightly in appearance. If you are concerned, we encourage you to stop by the nursery to see the product first hand.
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All of the products listed above are available for pickup, delivery or to be installed at your house by one of our professional landscape crews. Hardgoods are delivered daily Monday through Saturday. Please call or stop by our office to schedule a delivery.
If you would like pricing information or to order a product for delivery please contact our office.
How do I know how much mulch I need for my yard?
We are often asked how to figure out how much mulch is needed for a given job. The first step is to measure your beds and determine your square footage. When possible try to break beds into rough shapes that are easy to measure. The basic formula is to determine square footage in feet, multiply that times depth and then divide by 27 (the number of cubic feet in a cubic yard) to convert those numbers to cubic yards.
Let's look at that formula in more depth: Square and rectangle beds are easy to measure and figure square footage. Just take the length, times the width to determine square footage. A circular bed's square footage is determined by using the formula pi x r squared. In other words, the radius (half the diameter of the circle) multiplied by itself (r squared) then multiplied by 3.14 (pi) to get the square footage. A triangle bed with a right angle can be determined by taking the length of the sides on either side of the right angle, multiplying them together and then dividing that number in half. By using these basic shapes you should be able to determine the rough square footage of virtually any bed around your house.
Once you have determined the total square footage you must then determine how deep you want to spread this material. For most mulch products depth is usually somewhere between two inches (a top dressing to freshen up color) to four inches (a heavy layer for weed suppression or to fill new beds with no prior mulch in them). Because these depths are in inches (less than a foot) we will end up multiplying our square footage by a fraction. For example, four inches is a third of a foot, so we would multiply our square footage total by .33 to determine our total cubic feet needed. (Three inches works out to .25 and two inches works out to .17)
Finally, you need to convert your number which is currently in cubic feet to cubic yards (almost all mulch products are sold exclusively by the yard). This is done by dividing your number by 27 (the number of cubic feet in a cubic yard). This will give you the total number of cubic yards of any given product you may need for your house. If all this seems confusing, we are always willing to help you determine the appropriate amount you need. Just measure your beds and then call or stop by our office, we'll take it from there.
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