Content
- Successful garden design with stones
- Observe legal regulations
- In which garden areas is stone worked?
- ways
- Garden forecourts and front gardens
- Garden walls and stairs
- Terraces and seats
- Which stones are suitable for use in the garden?
- natural stones
- Concrete and concrete blocks
- Tips
With stones can be e.g. create a beautiful terrace
Successful garden design with stones
Stone is a very versatile material that can be used in a variety of ways in the garden. Whether for paving paths, for fixing the cozy favorite seat or the garage forecourt or for the construction of a privacy wall - for every project there is the pase material. Stone is very varied and colorful, you can choose from many different varieties.
Observe legal regulations
To avoid annoyance with your neighbors, you should seek information about what is allowed and what is not, especially before construction on or near the neighboring property. As a rule, no requests to the building authorities are necessary for the construction of terraces and roads. If small frontier walls, screens, screens or larger structures are near the garden boundary, it is advisable to take a look at the development plan, the local statutes or a request in the municipal or district office.
In which garden areas is stone worked?
Stone is used in many garden areas and makes it possible to design different garden spaces. However, despite all your creativity, you should also make sure that access paths, garage entrances, terrace surfaces or simply paved paths through the vegetable garden have been designed to be functional, safe and sensible so that you can enjoy them permanently. Thus, the access path to the house will be wider and stronger than the stepping stones to the secluded, hidden seat in the garden corner. Garage forecourts, on the other hand, require a more durable floor covering than would be the case with a terrace.
ways
Paths in the garden are not only a practical, but also an important design element. The routing and the selection of stones have a significant impact on how a garden is perceived: strictly formal by a linear route, interesting by curved paths with an imaginative-colorful pavement or exceptionally by star-shaped, paved paths in the vegetable garden. When creating paths, the following information is recommended:
Garden forecourts and front gardens
For your own sake avoid too small garage forecourts. Even poorly visible obstacles such as boulders, low posts or walls have no business here. Instead, the substructure must be specially designed for garage accesses to withstand the larger loads well. If you work with patterns and pave circles, squares or even mosaics, these places are exciting.
Garden walls and stairs
Garden walls, no matter how high, always need a foundation to stand upright. From a slope of about ten percent is also recommended to install steps. These must be safe and trivial to commit. Wide, paved steps are for much committed ways, simple steps, however, only for the development of less frequented garden areas - such as by-ways - makes sense. Stairs and walls can be perfectly combined and combined with pools, sun terraces, seating areas or raised beds to interesting units.
Terraces and seats
Optimal is a wind- and privacy-protected terrace at the house, which offers enough space for a seating area with tables and chairs. Smooth surfaces, on which the furniture is safe, are to be preferred in the terrace area. Second seats in the garden can also get simpler coverings and can be designed exciting: For example, you can "sink" such a place with the help of little walls or attach to a slope.
Which stones are suitable for use in the garden?
Often the purse determines which stone is used in the garden. But also issues of environmental protection and the expected transport routes and costs should be included in the considerations.
natural stones
Natural stone, as the name suggests, is obtained from natural resources. Here, a distinction is made between hard and soft rock, which is important for processing and use in the garden. For example, hard rocks are granite, gneiss, porphyry, and basalt that are very hard, frost-resistant, and of lasting durability. Often these stones are used for walls and as paving stones, for stone stelae and as edging stones. For example, soft rocks are all limestone, sandstone, slate and marble. They are easy to work with and are great for gardening and for building low walls and stairs.
Concrete and concrete blocks
Concrete is a stone-like material that can be used in a very versatile way just like natural stone. This makes it a good alternative to the more expensive natural stones. Heavily used areas in the garden can be covered with composite stone paving, whose individual stones are provided with a so-called wear layer. This is particularly hard and can withstand even the toughest conditions.
Tips
Clinker comes in many color shades and is therefore, but also because of its durability a very good alternative to natural stone.