BUSINESS MONDAY: Business hopes shell landscaping is new wave for ground cover

Alan Krinsky and Shawn Sundall sell seashells, but not by the seashore. They sell them from an office in North Naples, where the soil around the front entryway is lined with earth-toned stripes. At first, the bands look like mulch or stone or some other, popular ground cover. But it’s all shell, and Krinsky and Sundall consider it the future of landscaping. “It’s new, it’s different, it’s unique,” Sundall said. “And it’s Florida. What’s better, in Florida, than to have shells?”