Where stony austerity and floral splendor meet, breathtaking garden images with artistic aspirations are created. The garden design with stones and gravel therefore aims at a congenial partnership with specialists from the plant kingdom. Let yourself be inspired here for your individual garden with stones and gravel.

Stones liven up a garden and give it a natural look

Ideas in stone - how to integrate stones into the garden picture

Mother Earth has a large pool of magnificent types of stone ready for us to beautify the garden. From cheap sandstone to expensive natural stone, there is something for every budget. This is how stones fit harmoniously into the garden picture:

  • Boulders as majestic eye-catchers and optical havens of peace
  • As a decorative and stabilizing slope reinforcement
  • The ideal filling for gabions as a privacy screen
  • Indispensable building material for the drywall

Under the hands of creative stonemasons, stones are transformed into shapely accessories for every garden style. In the Japanese Garden, stone lanterns, steles and Buddhas are important elements for an authentic design. Professionally worked, stones act as a bench for eternity in the cottage garden, the Mediterranean and the baroque garden.

Stylish design with gravel - more than a hodgepodge of stones

Gravel comes up trumps with a variety of advantages that go far beyond the simple appearance. Gravel as a floor covering is significantly cheaper than paving. As a white or colored mulch layer, gravel in the bed compensates for temperature fluctuations, keeps the soil moist for longer and suppresses annoying weeds. This is how the stones fit decoratively into your garden design:

  • The ideal substrate in the Mediterranean garden
  • As a curved raked floor covering to simulate a river in the Japanese garden
  • Gravel paths give box gardens and cottage gardens a genuine flair
  • Gravel covering ensures more safety at fireplaces

Even this small excursion into the multifaceted possible uses shows why imaginative garden design cannot do without gravel.

These plants harmonize with stones and gravel

In creative garden design, stones and gravel serve as prosaic elements, while plants take on the lyrical part. However, not every plant is suitable for the combination with the inorganic material. The following list names proven types and varieties:

shrubs (100-800 cm)

  • Ash maple (Acer negundo 'Flamingo')
  • Rocket juniper (Juniperus scopulorum 'Skyrocket')
  • Spring Cherry (Prunus 'Accolade')
  • Smoke bush (Cotinus coggygria

Subshrubs (up to 100 cm)

  • Bearded Beard (Caryopteris x clandonensis)
  • Ivory broom (Cytissus x praecox)
  • Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
  • Dwarf Spiers (Spierea japonica)

ornamental grasses

  • Bearded Grass (Andropogon scoparius)
  • Chinese reed (Miscanthus sinensis)
  • Pennisetum alopecuroides (Pennisetum alopecuroides)
  • Heron feather grass (Stipa pulcherrima)

Flowers next to stones and gravel

perennials

  • Coneflower (Echinacea)
  • Stonecrop (Sedum telephium)
  • Pearly Basket (Anaphalis)
  • Cranesbill (Geranium)

bulb flowers

  • Crown imperial (Fritillaria imperialis)
  • Tulips (Tulpia)
  • Steppe Candle (Eremurus)
  • Ball leeks (Allium)

So that stones and gravel are not overgrown by weeds, simply lay a weed fleece as an underlay. (21.70€) Open the cover with a cross-shaped cut where trees and shrubs are to thrive.

tips

When the summer sun puts you in a headlock on the south-facing terrace, a shady seat in the small corner of the garden invites you to linger. A floor covering of light-colored gravel also reflects the sun's rays that sneak through the canopy of trees.

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