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Take your garden to the next level with
Sunset
Landscaping with Stone
. This popular guide is a fundamental resource for realizing the potential of any garden. That's because stone is resilient, organic, and colorful—its versatility is legendary. This essential book helps gardeners make the most of stone, with design ideas and step-by-step how-to instructions for everything from paths to walls to waterfalls. With guidance from
Sunset
, you can make your dreams become realities!
You'll enjoy:
Beautiful, full-color photo galleries featuring updated designed approaches to enhance all sorts of gardens with stone, from traditional to contemporary
Detailed, step-by-step instructions for a variety of projects including paths, retaining walls, and water features
Helpful lists for selecting appropriate plants in specific situations, such as when creating gravel or stepping-stone paths
"Trade Secrets" and “Design Tips” from professionals on using stones most effectively to enhance your garden
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Sunset Landscaping with Stone
$14.95
Dimensions - 8-1/4" x 10-3/4"
144 Pages
Softcover
Step-by-step installation instructions
Designing a Gravel Path
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A gravel path can be curved or straight, narrow or wide. Because there's no need to shape individual stones or to accommodate their existing sizes, your design isn't as limited as it is with other types of stone paving. However, there are certain issues you should take into consideration as you lay out the path:
Although 2 feet is considered the minimum width, two people need a path 5 feet wide if they are to walk side by side. Provide an even wider area if you wish to showcase garden plants that thrive in the microclimate gravel creates.
Gravel stays put only on relatively flat stretches. If your site slopes, choose another paving material, or break the path into a series of terraces.
Consider maintenance issues as you fine-tune the route. A path in the open usually needs monthly raking or blowing to keep it free of needles and leaves; if the path crosses under messy plants, the gravel will need more frequent cleaning.
Gravel may catch on shoes and be carried indoors, where it can scratch the floor. To guard against damage, you may need to design your path with a wide landing of stone or concrete -- or plan to institute a 'shoes off' policy indoors. You may also want to confine gravel to secondary paths, rather than use it for the main route to your house. Or you can settle stepping-stones into the gravel.
TIP: You can buy pebbles that are basically all one color or opt for a multicolored mix, as the builder of this path did.
Designing a Path of Mixed Materials
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A few tricks help keep a path of mixed materials from looking like a jumble of disconnected parts. Just as with plants in a perennial border, the elements of a mixed-materials path look better when they are grouped or repeated, not used singly. If you arrange materials in a pattern, repeat it in some way along the path. For example, you can lay out a geometric pattern and fill some spaces with one type of paving materials and the remaining spaces with another type. Or you can build most of the path with one variety of stone, such as square bluestone pavers, and then tuck in a very different selection, maybe granite cobblestones, wherever the path bends or widens. You can also add contrasting color at regular intervals.
TIP: A few large flagstones set into the cobblestones smooth the transition between different paving materials.
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Sample Project 1
Sample Project 2
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