| In springtime many of us look to the garden with the | | | | all the country mansions featured in films usually have |
| idea of sprucing it up a bit in preparation for the | | | | gravel driveways. There's a kind of nostalgic 1920s |
| summer. We all love to have a beautiful garden that | | | | Jeeves and Wooster feel to gravel in the garden. |
| our neighbours can admire, but sometimes we don't | | | | Gravel has more mundane, but useful application in the |
| always want to have to put in the considerable work | | | | garden. Spread around a plant or flower bed over the |
| that it usually entails. | | | | soil it has the effect of preventing soil erosion from |
| You don't have to! | | | | heavy rain and wind. Gravel can help to restrict the |
| Looking for low maintenance garden ideas? Look no | | | | evaporation of moisture from the soil, helping plants |
| further than decorative gravel. It won't actually make | | | | and flowers to grow better. It also helps to restrict |
| your flowers grow, it won't actually pull out the weeds | | | | weed growth. |
| for you, and it certainly won't do any digging for you, | | | | Your low maintenance garden comes from all the |
| but there's a lot that it can do. | | | | things you don't have to do as a result of using gravel. |
| Gravel is the secret weapon that thousands of | | | | It can mean less watering, less soil management and |
| gardeners quietly employ. They are the ones whose | | | | less weeding for a start. If that was all, then it certainly |
| gardens are always admired. They are also the ones | | | | would be worth it, but there's a lot more you can do. |
| who do the minimum of work to achieve it, and even | | | | If you have a large lawn area, consider breaking it up |
| less work to maintain it. Others scratch their heads and | | | | with areas of gravel. Using different colours and |
| wonder just how they do it. Gravel, or to be more | | | | textures you can create a most pleasing effect. You |
| precise, decorative gravel is the simple answer. | | | | will lower your maintenance level by not having to |
| You can obtain gravel in a dizzying array of colours | | | | mow so much lawn. Now, surely that is an attractive |
| and shapes. It comes from all kinds of stone, both hard | | | | proposition! |
| and soft varieties and it has all kinds of uses in the | | | | A large lawn can have paths meandering through it. It |
| garden too. It has the wonderful ability to look | | | | creates a lazy effect that breaks up the straight lines. |
| expensive without being expensive, and it retains an | | | | It can also be used in this way for the principles of |
| elegance that only real stone can. | | | | Feng Shui if you are in to that, but just because it looks |
| The obvious use of decorative gravel in the garden is | | | | great and gets you out of too much lawn mowing |
| in a path or driveway. There's nothing quite like the | | | | should be reason enough. It's true: If you're looking for |
| satisfying crunch of gravel underfoot, or under car | | | | low maintenance garden ideas, look no further than |
| tyres. It has a kind of quality sound, perhaps because | | | | decorative gravel. |