Garden With Pebbles
Garden With Pebbles
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Using pebbles in a garden brings different colors and textures to the garden. Pebbles can fill up otherwise empty space, leaving a visual impression that's more interesting than simple dirt, soil or mulch. Pebbles can serve other purposes, such as creating a decorative border, landscaped path, or a pretty ground and soil cover. In order to best pebble a garden, it's important to clear a space for pebbles, choose the pebbles, and put the pebbles into the garden space.
Tour local gardens for inspiration before planning to pebble the garden.
Measure the amount of space dedicated for pebbles. Carefully plan out your pebbled space. This area should be blocked off from the rest of the garden to heighten the effect of the pebbles.
- Use a tape measure to get the exact measurements you need to pebble your garden. This will help you know exactly how many Kg of pebbles you need. In general, 5Kg of pebbles will cover about 1 square feet at 3/4 to 1 inch thickness.
- It may be useful to have extra pebbles around when you need to fill in your pebble garden, so make sure to have more than you need for the space you have.
Prepare the space in the garden for the introduction of pebbles. Clear out any brush or weeds in areas where pebbles will be used. Wear gloves and protective gear so you don't cut your hands or injure your eyes.
- Tear out weeds, flowers, or any other plants in the space that will be pebbled. This makes sure they don’t grow underneath your pebbles.
- Have gloves and protective goggles when tearing out weeds or flowers. This is especially important if you are using a weed wacker or electric hedge trimmers.
Ensure adequate drainage in the garden. Precipitation can build up in the pebble garden if you do not have good drainage in your garden.
- If water is building up when it rains, you may have a drainage problem.
- You can create a French drain, which is a trench next to the garden filled with gravel. This may help to keep your garden free from overflow water.
- Another option to improve drainage is burying a pipe underneath a trench. The pipe should send the run off water to an area that won't be flooded when it's raining.
Shop around for different types of pebbles. You can find pebbles for purchase at lawn and garden stores, and pool and pet stores.These pebbles will be of a wide variety of types and prices. Find the best one to match your needs.Types of stones available as pebbles include: [8]
- Marble pebbles, which are pink, white, black yellow and brown.
- Limestone pebbles, which show up in natural colors such as tan, black, white and brown.
- Granite pebbles, which are pink and red in color.
- You can also search riverbeds and streams for unique pebbles to use as accents.
- Choose from a variety of shapes and textures. You can use flat pebbles, round or elliptical shapes, or combine many different types.The different pebble types will work better depending on your environment and pebbling plan.
- Pea gravel, river rock, crush granite, and Mexican beach pebbles all offer different textures. Find different pebbles that work best for your garden environment and look.
Style garden - Come up with a design that fits the style of your garden. You can use one pebble color and shape, or can mix up up many different shades and textures in the garden. Plan out your design before pebbling the garden.
- If a less natural, and more polished look is desired in the garden, use monochrome stones in onyx or white for a brighter, refined appearance. These are available at landscaping stores and are more uniform in size and shape.
- You can also make a pebble mosaic, where you combine a variety of different pebbles into one pattern. This can create a fun and interesting look for your garden.
- Some other pebble design options include blurring the boundaries boundaries of your pebble garden with plants, combining different sized stones, and adding a rock border. Try to find the best one that suits your particular garden.
- Spread the pebbles over the designated area in the garden. After they are spilled out into the space, carefully move to cover the space.
- Use a rake or similar garden tool to spread the pebbles. Try not to damage the pebbles when spreading them.
- Your pebbles should totally cover the area. It's better to have too many pebbles than too little, since that will make your pebble garden look untidy.
Arrange them by hand around the plants and flowers. Spread them evenly around larger areas. Try to balance out the level of the pebble garden as much as possible. You can probably eyeball the level, but try to get down to the ground level to check it out.- Be careful not to damage any plants of flowers in pebble gardens. They should still be able to get plenty of water and sunlight as well.
- Level out the pebbles as much as possible. You can try to eyeball it, but it may also be useful to use a gardening tool to smooth them out, even around plants and flowers
- Cement the pebbles if necessary. Depending on your pebble pattern, it may be necessary to cement the pebbles down. In areas where people will be walking over the pebbles often, you may want to use cement to guarantee they don't become dislodged from the path.
- Mix a 4:1 ratio from cement to sand when you're preparing the cement mixture. Ideally, the texture should resemble bread crumbs.
- Pour the cement onto the path. Fill in pebbles into the path way. Don't use too much cement, since this will overwhelm your pebble path. Ideally, try to calculate the amount of cement needed and the amount of pebbles needed.
- Step back from the garden to assess the visual impact. The pebbles should give the garden a clean, decorative appearance. A pebble garden can make a garden look well decorated and take your breath away.
- Ideally, the colors should be pleasing to your eye and fit in well with your plants and flowers.
- Keep in mind the sharp lines and angles in designing the pebble garden. This will help you have a balance in your pebble garden.
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