When planning garden landscaping

When planning garden landscaping

When planning garden landscaping

A simple, low cost, low labour way to transform your outdoor space is with decorative aggregates. Whether drawing up garden landscaping plans or designing a gravel driveway, they can be used as an accent within your outdoor space to contrast with plants and flowers using natural materials such as slate chippings or stone.

Decorative aggregates, otherwise known as decorative stone and chippings, are a great choice in that they do not date easily, making materials such as garden gravel and slate chippings perfect for use in areas which may not be altered often, but which may need a one-time makeover, such as an overgrown garden.

When planning garden landscaping, colour is a major factor as it can affect how the space looks throughout the seasons. Decorative aggregates come in a wide range of colours and materials, from red garden gravel to blue slate chippings and can change the whole look of an outdoor space, with very little effort. Decorative stone and chippings require very little in the way of maintenance, therefore saving you both time and money, too.

Patio areas are ideal places for laying decorative stone and chippings, as they require far less maintenance than tiling or decking (And they are much less slippery when it rains as well). The various colours decorative aggregates are available in also make it possible to use a combination of materials to make your patio into a stunning feature in your garden. Garden gravel can also be used for plant and flower beds and here it performs a multitude of tasks; not only does it serve as decoration, but it helps to bind the soil together, reduces erosion to the soil caused by heavy rain and also aids moisture retention in the soil underneath the gravel, which is ideal for plants or flowers as it also provides a form of drainage, too.

Lawns are commonplace in most gardens and when planning your garden landscaping, decorative aggregates are well worth considering as they reduce the amount of upkeep the lawn will need, as well as helping to break up the lawn by creating pathways using garden gravel, for example, as well as being used to surround water features such as ponds.

Decorative aggregates such as slate chippings are ideal in places such as a gravel driveway. Slate chippings are particularly useful for this purpose as they do not tend to roll underfoot the way conventional garden gravel might, but interlock with one another instead. Larger size decorative aggregates are usually best for use under foot in areas such as a gravel driveway, particularly if you wish to use gravel, as smaller size aggregates can tend to be mistaken for giant cat litter trays by local felines.

Decorative aggregates are a fabulous way to change the appearance of your outdoor area by using texture and colour to break up a space, or for more practical uses such as a gravel driveway.

With such a broad spectrum of colours and materials, you can allow your imagination to run riot when deciding how you want your garden to look, and decorative aggregates can provide an excellent solution for your garden landscaping needs.

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