Garden Materials: TlME AND money are two major factors to take into considetation when designing your Garden Materials. Only plan a Garden Materials that you can afford to make (and, incidentally, that you can comfortably afford to maintain) in a realistic timescale.
The joy of Garden Materialsing is that it suits every pocket. Landscaping a small area with choice materials and lavish, mature plants is expensive; by contrast, using inexpensive materials, propagating as many plants as possible, and being prepared to wait is the best way to develop a fine Garden Materials on a tight budget.
ust about all types of paving materials are uitable for surfacing a patio—bricks, stone ir cement blocks, cobblestones, and gravel, however, take care in selecting a surfacing naterial as you will be laying a wide area .nd some textures or colors may be too nuch to bear.
You may want to use the same materials o pave a patio as those used for paths :lsewhere in the Garden Materials. This helps to give i unified appearance to your Garden Materials, or you nay want to match materials used in the instruction of your house. To provide visual interest in the surface, consider adding iections of other materials which are available—areas of gravel or cobblestones in i patio paved with blocks or bricks, perhaps, ar a mixture of pavers and blocks.
Regardless of the material used to pave a patio, it can still look very stark if the surface is unbroken by decoration. In general, patios also tend to look a lot better if they are linked in one of the ways suggested below to the rest of the Garden Materials. |