Diy stones and paths glowing in the dark

I suggest looking at a way to add beauty to landscape design at night. This is a way of decorating tracks with the addition of luminous glowing stones. You can put such stones along or over the paths (if they are unpaved). And you can use them when pouring tracks (using washed concrete technology), or as a mosaic.

For these purposes, either a plastic acrylic stone glowing in the dark or colored natural pebbles, marble chips of different fractions are used.

Phosphors should not be confused with luminescent materials (the latter glow in ultraviolet light). Phosphors glow with accumulated light. Organic phosphors are not radioactive, without phosphorus, they glow up to 10 hours. But there are also eternally luminous ones (based on radioactive salts - as before in the commander's watches) - such are not common and are not widely used.

The easiest way is to purchase a ready-made glowing pebble or marble stone. There are offers in large cities. Although, its cost is not small. But someone makes this stone in handicraft conditions! This means that you can do it yourself.

One of the options is how to do it yourself. We purchase a phosphor and mix it with acrylic varnish and paint the stones. You can also use enamels. But they are not transparent and will emit light only from the surface. It would be ideal to use stone varnish or polyurethane varnish. They are weatherproof.

By the way, you can make the phosphor yourself: from coniferous concentrate and boric acid: stir the concentrate with water, add boric acid and heat over a fire with the solution boiling off. You can read more about this here: https://www.drive2.ru/b/2849521

You get roughly the same stones. Artificial stones can also be cast from acrylic polymer (which is used to fill countertops) with the addition of phosphor. This also requires silicone molds for casting stones.

Another way is to purchase phosphor aerosol paint and cover the pebbles. A couple of minutes and kilograms of glowing stones are ready. But how well it keeps on the stones is unknown.

Then you scatter stones over the surface of freshly laid concrete when pouring paths, porch and sink stones. But they should not sink completely in concrete and be covered with cement, they should remain on the surface. To prevent the coating of stones from being erased, the path must be covered with polyurethane varnish.

The star effect will be like in the example of an artificial countertop with a glow in the dark stone. But the stone in the countertop is plastic (phosphor with acrylic resin). Or stones can be simply scattered along the paths.

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Photos are taken from open sources, from Yandex. Pictures

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