“I have had my decorative concrete landscape setting for several years and I love it,” said Wanda Bullock of Saucier, Miss. “I wouldn’t have anything else.”

Bullock and her husband, Ray, wanted to eliminate a flowerbed along the walkway to their front door. They replaced it with a kidney-shaped concrete landscaping accent. The surface is stamped and colored to look like cobblestones. The setting includes a night lamp and a bench.

The setting was created by Chuck Leidigh, owner and operator of C&L Concrete in Saucier. He has been installing decorative concrete sidewalks, driveways and patios for the past seven years and his business is booming.

“Decorative concrete has really taken off,” Leidigh said. “When I first started in this business, things were slow. Now, we have a month-and-a-half to two-month backlog of orders.”

“We had done the concrete work for a large condo,” Leidigh said. “That was before Katrina hit. Tornadoes took away the building and floodwaters washed across it. They have rebuilt the condo. We went in and resealed the decorative concrete and did some touch-up repairs. It looks just like it did when it was new.”