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Information About Our Stones

As owners of Fantastic Stones, Garden of the Nightingale, we have prepared this website to introduce you to some of the most amazing stones on earth. All of them are natural none have been crafted or sculptured by any hand of man. We feel the value of them will enhance the attractiveness of your office, lobby or grounds and actually give a heightened professional appearance of your business. Your customers, clients or guests value first impressions, and how you give attention to your landscape and interior decor and design will certainly show them how you take pride in your business and how you value them.

As we stated, all the stones that we present have been sculptured, not by hand, but by the forces of nature over eons of time. These stones have been discovered in rivers and mountains within the land of China.

We include in this site, on the gallery pages, some of the stones we presently have available. Due to sales between updates to this site, a vailability of stock can change at any time. Thus it is best to confirm availability as well as pricing since the rate exchange of currency changes daily. Also the shipping and handling costs may vary depending on shipments destination. We also include the general cost of the stones in the gallery pages. Shipping and handling costs will depend on the weight that is ordered. A general guide that may help you is that a shipping container can hold either 10 tons or 20 tons. If your order is smaller than a full container, we can consolidate your shipment with other shipments. Shipping individual smaller stones by crate can be done.

In order to keep the prices low, we choose to keep our overhead down by keeping most of our inventory in China, rather than bringing them to the US where costs are much more expensive. We can make shipments directly from China to your location, which will also help reduce the costs. We appreciate your desire to physically see the stones so we offer to send as many pictures as you desire for your satisfaction. Or of course we will be happy to make a trip with you to tour the area and view our and other stones. You also need to keep in mind that any prices listed in this site are a general guide since our prices are based on the cost in Chinese Yuan The prices for the stones may vary according to the fluctuation of the rate exchange between US and China currencies.

We also offer anti-graffiti coating and graffiti removal service on all stones we sell.

Chinese Painting Stone

Aside from the fact that we find our stones in the mountains of China one might say they also look like Chinese paintings. Or, since the stones were formed first ages ago, we should say that Chinese paintings resemble or imitate the beauty found in these stones. Chinese Painting Stones carry several names such as, Chinese Picture Jasper and in the Guangxi Province of China they are also called Grass and Flower Stone or still in a mere common way, siltstone or dendritic stone.

The patterns and colors in these stones are naturally embedded in the rock during their formation thousands or millions of years ago. A major factor in the design formation is water and dissolving minerals as they seep into the fissures, or cracks and splits, of the rock and being embedded permanently by heat and pressure, thus creating an everlasting picture. Picture Jasper is found in many places of the earth. Click here to see the mining fields in Nambia, Africa. The colors are dependent on the minerals in the area where they were formed. The formations making the pictures and patterns is referred to as dendrite (from Greek déndron, tree) because of the branching features these dendrites are sometimes so amazing that they have often been mistaken for fossil plants.

Let me remind you, the patterns and colors are natural, NOT painted. Let your mind be taken into the fantasy they inspire and soothe your soul, as is the nature and design they were made for. Some of the Painting Stones have been sliced; all have been shaped, polished and clear coated to produce a high quality display setting. We also set them in a nicely finished wood bases that are individually carved and fit for each stone. The result is a beautiful piece ideal for home or office exhibition.

In our eStore, Garden of the Nightingale, you'll be able to select for purchase any of our stones. Regarding our Painting Stones, you'll also see the wide variety of natural patterns and colors as well of sizes and shapes we have. For your buying ability, we have placed on our eShelf about twenty stones in each catagory and will maintain that amount.