If you are thinking of creating a gravel garden you will find there is so much choice that it needn’t be expensive. It needn’t be overly time consuming either, or even hard work. The secret lies in proper planning followed up by proper implementation.
A garden with gravel doesn’t mean a garden with no grass, plants, flowers, shrubs, trees or whatever else you want in your garden. It just means a garden that uses gravel as a major feature in various ways and in various places.
The trick to creating a gravel garden that is refreshingly different from the average is to be creative and inventive. Think outside the box, for original thinking goes a long way, especially given the wealth of choice in materials available.
Gravel can be obtained in a wide variety of colours and textures. You can get golden gravel, gray, red, pink, plum, buff, white, green and blue gravel and various different shade of every colour too. You are not confined to just gravel though. You can get aggregates in the form of beach pebbles, cobbles, slate chippings, river pebbles and more. The variety can be seemingly endless.
If the idea of transforming your garden from a classic predominantly green environment, like so many others, into a garden where greenery and gravel mix and match in ways that delight and intrigue, has you thinking that you can’t really afford the cost, think again. It needn’t be expensive.
For one thing, you don’t have to do everything all at once. You could perhaps start with the most obvious use of gravel and create a path or driveway. If your garden has enough room, then be generous. If not, create a small path through it. The path doesn’t have to be straight and angular. In fact, it will probably work best if it is not.
A properly designed winding, snaking path can create sheng chi. When this is done according to the principles of sheng fui, this can expel sha chi and thereby create harmony and balance in your garden. The good energy can then circulate freely around your garden environment. And even if you don’t really believe in all that, it will still look great.
A gravel garden should mean a low maintenance garden. Gravel doesn’t need to be mowed or weeded, so using it where you normally do have to mow or weed will cut down on regular maintenance work quite considerably. With a little bit of thought you will be amazed at how easy it all becomes.
Your flower and plant beds are great places to use gravel or pebbles. It can look so much better than just black soil and it can serve a very useful purpose too. On hot summer days the gravel will help to prevent too much evaporation from the soil, thereby reducing the need for watering, and it will also help prevent soil erosion when there are heavy rains. It will also help to reduce the need for weeding. All you have to do is sit back and enjoy your beautiful gravel garden!
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