Most people discover decomposed granite when they are looking for something else. They want a path material that is not concrete. A ground cover that is not mulch. A driveway surface that does not look like a parking lot. And then someone points them toward DG, and suddenly one material solves three or four problems at once.

That is what makes it worth understanding. Decomposed granite is not flashy. It does not draw attention to itself. But it quietly handles more jobs in a landscape than almost any other single material you can buy.