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- How To Integrate Gabions In The Garden Design - Ideas Collection
- Stability in the slope with gabions - that's how it works
- Creative ideas for garden design - inspirations and suggestions
- Tips
For hillside attachment gabions are very popular
How To Integrate Gabions In The Garden Design - Ideas Collection
Gabions give the modern garden an original and contemporary image. Stylish in look and functionally in the conception, can be realized with the stone-filled wire baskets creative ideas. Browse here in a repertoire of imaginative uses for a stylish garden design with gabions.
Stability in the slope with gabions - that's how it works
Originally, gabions were designed for the stabilization of embankments in the Italian Alps. Today, resourceful gardeners use galvanized wire baskets to decoratively and cost-effectively secure a hillside garden. With a concrete foundation, gabion walls turn into decorative heavyweight walls. Green Sparfüchse fill on the visible side precious natural stones and on the non-visible back cheap gravel stones.
With the aid of plant bags, frugal rock garden plants can be inserted between the stones for a natural appearance. This pleases insects and other beneficials who find a sheltered retreat here. Integrate weatherproof spotlights between the stone filling turns the sober gabion wall at night in a mysterious wall.
Creative ideas for garden design - inspirations and suggestions
The use of gabions as a slope attachment was the starting signal for a multitude of imaginative design ideas. Be inspired by the following collection:
Do not feel like troublesome stone towing to fill gabions? Then use the galvanized wire baskets as a frame for a raised bed. The mesh mats are laid out with weatherproof coconut mats and filled with potting soil. Done is a raised bed with modern style.
Tips
With gabions you conjure a herbal spiral in a contemporary look. With stone-filled wire baskets as an outer shape, you bridge the gap from traditional herb cultivation to the modern age. By integrating the sun worshipers among the herb species with plant bags into the stone filling, you increase the cultivated area and give your gabion herbal spiral special flair.