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- Decorative and easy care - front garden design with grasses and gravel
- The best gravel varieties for the front yard - Tips for the selection
- These grasses make a wonderful partnership with Kies
- Tips
Gravel and grass are modern and easy to care for
Decorative and easy care - front garden design with grasses and gravel
Is there any time for the time-consuming care of shrubs, shrubs and trees? Then you can easily make your front yard with grasses and gravel. This guide gives helpful tips on how to turn the combination into an aesthetic experience.
The best gravel varieties for the front yard - Tips for the selection
Do not reach for the first chippings or gravel from the hardware store, to make your front yard easy to clean. A careful selection of the right type of gravel paves the way to a tasteful appearance, beyond a dry stone desert. Recommended stone species for a stylish pebble bed we have put together here for you:
Common grits for ornamental gravel are 16/25 to 25/40. By working within a gravel variety with different grain sizes, you produce subtle variety in the optical effect.
These grasses make a wonderful partnership with Kies
Grasses and gravel stage a front garden whose visual aura is reduced to clear shapes without being boring. From the wide range of ornamental grass we have selected the most beautiful species:
A prime example of the perfect ornamental grass in the pebble bed is bearskin fescue (Festuca gautieri, Pic Carlit '). Its hemispherical grass-heads with pointed, fresh-green stalks unfold in all their splendor, where sunny, sandy and lean conditions prevail.
Tips
For a front garden on the north side, the combination of grasses and gravel is not recommended. The stones are regularly covered with algae and moss due to the damp-cool microclimate. For shady areas, hardy ground cover, such as ivy (Hedera helix) or thick-males (Pachysandra terminalis), are more suitable than a mulch layer of gravel.