Decorative Feature Garden Paths

Garden paths have always been an important and striking element of landscape design. Direct appointment of garden paths is the shortest way to help achieve the necessary goals for the cottage or garden plot, and it does not get dirty and do not go astray. But in addition to its direct purpose garden paths and perform a decorative function, but sometimes they are even framed some tracks.

For paving garden paths are now used quite a lot of different building materials. Concrete tile, wood, pebbles, gravel, bricks, paving slabs. These are just some of the used building materials.

The choice of material for garden paths depends on climate, soil from the site of destination garden path. But whatever construction material would not be applied, covering the garden paths should not be slippery, and building strong and durable material.

Before doing sidewalks in the area to do a drawing showing the scale to draw a house, all garden buildings, indicate the location of trees and flower beds. After this break sidewalks in the drawing. And only then proceed to carry out garden paths on the site.

It happens that the sidewalks do not produce the desired effect, and a lawn tread path. This path must be converted into a garden path.

Often trampling the lawn angles. To avoid this, we must make a smooth rounded corners lawn. Own garden paths do not necessarily straight-cut like a ruler.

The geometry of the garden paths can be arbitrary. How straight and curved, with smooth corners. But it must avoid excessive tortuosity, not to have the desire to reduce the road on the lawn. Garden paths should not be split up turf and do not have to end the impasse.

More convenient if sidewalks would like rounds the whole territory of the garden or plot.

If the coating is made ​​from garden path of small building material such as sand, gravel or crushed stone from stone, the garden path that does not disperse, must meet the curb. Border protect garden path from razezzhaniya. And besides with curb sidewalks are finished appearance. For the manufacture of the curb is typically used brick, stone, concrete or wood. But there are also borders of plants.

It can be floral friezes and borders of bushy plants. Sometimes the herbaceous border is made ​​from flowers of equal height, as it were planted in the lineup. A herbaceous border is sometimes reminiscent of flower bushes. As a rule, to curb use plants that can form the crown and attach any kind of interesting conceived. This can be neatly clipped the curb or animal figures, and even entire songs.

Decorative sidewalks look, made ​​from a variety of smooth stone plates. Plates can be made ​​of artificial material, and natural stone. The most interesting is paving slabs with different widths of stitching. The width of the seam between the plates depends on its content.
Filling the seam can be pebbles, colored gravel, coal, or grass. This combination of materials looks very impressive. With such large paving slabs laid in view of the length of a human step, making walking the walk most comfortable.

If the climate permits, covering the garden paths can be made ​​of wood. Typically, for these purposes coniferous wood, as well as larch.

These tracks are very decorative. Especially look beautiful wooden saw cut.


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