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Gravel garden - do it yourself

High decorativeness, variety and richness of plants used, ease of care are the main advantages of the new style of modern landscape design, called the “Gravel Garden”. Extensive gravel coating of the soil creates an excellent background for plant compositions and prevents the growth of weeds.

In a gravel garden, strangely enough, not only gravel is used, but also other types of stone: crushed stone, naked, pebbles. First weed control is needed. After this, you need to create a fertile soil layer from light earth, peat, sand, organic fertilizers.

The introduction of fine gravel into the soil has a stabilizing effect, improves the structure, the soil becomes loose, in the spring does not condense from flood waters, it warms up faster. Gravel provides plants with optimal conditions for self-seeding and growth. In winter, gravel perfectly protects the seeds from rotting. In summer it works like a protective mulch.

Selection of plants is traditionally carried out according to the criterion of unpretentiousness. The decorative qualities of green spaces are also important. Against the background of gravel, for example, plants with a wax coating on the leaves look especially beautiful.





Growing herbs look spectacular in gravel. At the end of spring, they shimmer with colors, from blue-violet to silver-white. Autumn colors cereals in bronze and purple tones. And in winter, the frosty herbs look bizarre and mysterious. The calming rustle of cereals gives the impression of freedom and lightness.

The list of ornamental crops for the gravel garden includes thyme, sedum, various forms of yarrow, physostegia, hosts, almost all types of wormwood, maned barley, poppies, incense, lunaria, plantain, milkwort, perennial asters, bought, tansy, feather grass, stonecrops, angelica , saxifrage and many others.





Particularly attracting attention are tall flowers and herbs: Chinese miscanthus, Japanese anemone, paniculate gypsophila, mullein, cotton-buds, tall Veronica, goldenrod, monarda.

Shrubs and trees are also used in gravel gardens.However, it should be remembered that their number should not be too large so as not to spoil the beauty of the landscape. Alternate woody and herbaceous plants, bulbs, perennials to give the garden an image of a semi-wild, natural landscape.





Planting plants should be in large groups evenly throughout the gravel garden. The garden changes regularly, as the plants grow, develop, move seasonally, forming new groups. To maintain a well-groomed appearance, it is necessary to remove weeds, cut off faded shoots that have lost their decorative appearance.
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7 comments
adianon
Very beautiful photos of the garden, definitely to the gardener - honor and respect, the plants look well-groomed and harmoniously fit into the landscape.
Alina-17
Everything looks so unusual and beautiful ... Admiring myself, I can no longer take my eyes off this Mediterranean colorful corner! How much love, labor and patience you need to invest in creating, and then in the care of such a wonderful garden ...
Shenno
There are a number of tricks in the application of which many difficulties can be avoided.

For example, from the same weeds right on the gravel paths of the garden, geotextile laid under the gravel backfill will protect.
Andryunchik
Gravel paths are used in many museums around the world, for example, the Peterhof Museum Complex; these paths require the least attention and service. It turned out to be a beautiful gravel garden, but I would also add water to it.
B_cat
Would make some corrections in the selection of plants for the garden, but in general, it is very fresh and beautiful. Stone gravel lends particular sophistication to this design approach!
yanshuf
Really interesting style. If you have the taste and desire to make the site beautiful, you can achieve a lot. Of course, you need to follow certain rules.
Olenonok
Gravel paths are also ideal for my summer cottage. It’s quite affordable, and you can try to do it yourself ...
But what about weeds, will they really not creep out in the course of time?

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