2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Recently, decoration of gardens, personal plots, dachas and courtyards with multi-colored gravel has become quite common. Many people think that this is just an empty trend of fashion and nothing more. Is it really?
What is good about a gravel garden (plot)
In fact, a gravel garden is a real find for many summer residents who want to independently and with minimal financial costs make their plot or recreation area beautiful and well-groomed, pleasing to the eye.
- Firstly, a gravel garden is simply beautiful and neat. There is a lot of room for imagination: from gravel of different colors, you can create the most bizarre patterns on the site. The main thing is that fantasy does not disappoint. You can combine seemingly incongruous elements: wood chips, saw cuts from trees, colored granules, bricks, tiles and everything that your imagination tells you.
- Secondly, the creation of a gravel garden is not a very labor and financial undertaking.
- Thirdly, caring for a site covered with gravel is simple: you do not have to constantly weed out and dig up the soil.
- Fourthly, the plants in such an area practically do not require watering, since the gravel does not allow moisture to pass out. And this means that you can significantly save money and effort on watering the site.
- Fifth, no additional paths are required, since you can walk around the garden without fear of getting into the mud.
The only drawback of gravel is its heavy weight, because of which a lot of physical strength will have to be applied to fill the area and level the stones on the surface.
How to choose plants for your gravel garden?
The most important rule when choosing plants for a gravel garden is that there should not be a lot of plants and they should not grow all the time! Otherwise, all the beauty of the site will be lost. Trees, conifers, shrubs will help create the main composition, and herbs and flowers will complement it. By the way, it is best to use perennials to create a gravel garden.
Trees and shrubs. You should not buy tall trees and shrubs. In addition, it is better to refuse to purchase shrubs that need to be planted in a group, since in a gravel garden, trees and shrubs planted alone, as well as small flower beds, look best.
So, dwarf trees are suitable for a gravel garden. Coniferous plants, such as spruce, pyramidal, spherical and creeping thuja, will also fit well "into the interior". By the way, the creeping thuja can be planted on one of the beds of the gravel garden.
From shrubs, varieties of juniper, cotoneaster and barberry are suitable - thanks to bright berries and an interesting crown shape, and in autumn their bright leaves will decorate a gravel garden. Also, against the background of gravel, yucca, Japanese spirea and astilba look beautiful.
Perennial flowers and herbs. It is they who will help to set accents and give completeness to the gravel garden. It is best to choose short plants for the site. By the way, the best is the combination of gravel with meadow grasses and flowers. It looks beautiful and requires virtually no maintenance or attention. And when you look at the simpler meadow flowers, the eye rejoices. In addition, you can plant any short flowers. You can arrange flower beds from medium-sized border annual plants. Perennials look good in a gravel garden saintbrines (alpine asters), pansies, undersized irises, various perennial carnations and so on. Also, do not disregard various decorative cereals, because they are the ones that have a long-lasting decorative effect.
By the way, it is not necessary to plant all the plants in the ground. Part can be left in pots and tubs and moved around the garden depending on the mood. Beautiful plants in ceramic and clay decorative pots will only highlight the beauty of your garden.
And remember
the main thing in a gravel garden is not to overdo it with the number of plants! Otherwise, all the beauty and originality of the gravel garden will be lost.
To be continued.
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