2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Nowadays, it is already difficult to surprise someone with an alpine slide or rockery, which used to seem like a man-made miracle and the peak of skill of landscape designers. But for some reason, a gravel garden is still considered a curiosity of the land, although there is nothing difficult in creating it. Despite the advantages of a gravel garden, such a design composition can rarely be seen on a personal plot in Russia. Let's try to fix this situation, let's talk about the role of gravel and how it is used in your garden
Decorative gravel gardens have long been established in European parks. Experts use gravel not only to decorate flower beds and paths, but also to decorate recreation areas. Platforms made of stone are the center of a composition or a square where a large beautiful object, a fountain or a sculpture, is erected.
Gravel gardens are very popular in the East at the present time. Such direction of landscape architecture as "dry landscape" was created here. Everyone has probably heard about the "Japanese rock gardens", which symbolize the harmony of the universe. The center of Japanese compositions is a gravel platform, which personifies the surface of the water with various drawn circles and parallel lines.
Let's use the wisdom of Eastern and European gardeners to create unique and inimitable designs on our garden plots using natural material - gravel. With the help of stones, it is possible to create original expositions with additional effects, because all stones are very diverse in shape, size and color. The appearance of a gravel garden depends only on your limitless imagination.
Advantages of gravel
As each natural gravel material has advantages and disadvantages, consider them:
- environmental friendliness is the main advantage of gravel. A correctly placed layer of gravel does not interfere with air access to the soil, water absorption and plant roots do not lose their viability. Gravel is an excellent background for plants growing in rock gardens. In addition, gravel is able to cool the soil on hot summer days, it can be used as a mulching material.
- the decorativeness of gravel is difficult not to notice. It can replace the grass lawn, highlighting the beauty of garden flowers, while emphasizing and complementing favorably. Gravel is not susceptible to the negative influence of atmospheric precipitation, therefore it looks good in all weather conditions. The decorative qualities of this natural resource will allow you to grow flowers even on scarce soils, in wet areas and in arid climates. In addition to ordinary natural gravel, special decorative gravel of various colors is used: white, gold, blue, pink, green.
- perfect compatibility The indisputable advantage of gravel - compatibility with various plants and decorative materials. By combining gravel of different fractions and sizes with wood, glass, moss, concrete, you can create unusual decorations for your garden.
Gravel is an irreplaceable material for decorating problem areas
Gravel will help the gardener hide problem areas of the personal plot, arrange inconvenient hills and irregularly shaped depressions. As an option for using gravel - decorating the cellar, where it plays the role of covering the soil. Gravel will also help to equip the shady areas of the garden, creating expressive flower beds with shade-loving plants. The dream of many amateur gardeners is to create a reservoir on the site, which is not always possible. In such cases, a gravel stream will help; it will become a worthy imitation of a reservoir. Choosing gravel, you can create many landscape natural conditions: lay out the seashore with pebbles and shells, the desert - with yellow or orange gravel, lava - with red.
Creating a gravel garden
If you decide to create a gravel garden, then first of all decide on a place. Thoroughly clean the selected area intended for the gravel garden and proceed with the drainage device and the firmly tamped base. With the help of wire staples, a geotextile base or film is attached under the gravel, in which holes are made for planting plants. Unpretentious plants like yarrow, feather grass, saxifrage, bergenia, phlox look impressive against the background of gravel.
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