Stone flower beds: the nuances of choosing a stone...

Stone flower beds: the nuances of choosing a stone and the device with your own handsQuite recently, the allotments were densely planted with fruit trees and shrubs, and the remaining soil is divided for cautious beds. Now, the eye is not amused by the amicable circle of vegetable crops, but the lawns, gazebos and pools. The beds gave way to the bait position of the dressed flower beds. Suburban areas are often used for active recreation. With all this imagination, which the owners of the site show, the professional designers will envy. What are, for example, the flowerbeds made of pebbles with their own hands built by diligent summer residents. However, knowing the rules of choosing the right stone and ways of its laying, it is not so difficult to win a beautiful flowerbed.
We select pebbles for the sake of the flower garden
For the sake of the device beds of natural stones for the dacha use a different matter. In the book number:
Stone. Pretty imaginary rock with an abundance of different colors of grayish, yellowish, coffee and even reddish colors. Passes the atmosphere, but is not extremely durable.
Limestone. White, grayish and even creamy stones of limestone own a porous structure. Cracking of such stones is filled with earth, after that improvised containers are allowed to be extracted for planting in their plants. Aquatic plants and mosses grow well for limestone.
Tuff (travertine). Tuff is also a type of limestone. Plants planted in a hole for travertine can grow and perfectly clot the rock. For this purpose, soil cover plants are used.
Gneiss (slate). Flat gneiss slabs can own a very pretty green, violet or blue color.
Stone. This rock is not often used without reason, despite its external pleasantness. He is able to acidify the soil. It is used in small quantities.
Basalt. This magnificent rock, due to its own decorative appearance, is often used for the decoration and creation of flower beds .
Stone. This generalizing name is of stones of different sizes and colors, having an oval shape. Such stones peel water, and use them for the sake of flower beds of various kinds.
Dolomite. This is a mineral and a mountain tribe that can start any flowerbed with a real decoration. Often, dolomite is used like an ornamental rock.
Usually, for the creation of flower beds, choose only one or fairly large boulders, about which make a composition of pebbles much less. Thinking about the book, like to perform a multifunctional flower bed of pebbles, we stock up and additional materials. For the sake of drainage you need dust, gravel and a large rubble. For the sake of mulching, prepare a tree bark, peat and fine gravel. 1. stone - beautiful, but short-lived matter; 2. limestone - has a porous structure, suitable for moss feeding; 3. tuff - often used for the feeding of soil-cover plants; 4. Slate is a very fine rock
1. stone is a beautiful rock, which is rarely used, because it acidifies the soil; 2. dolomite - often used as an ornamental stone; 3. basalt - the rock, who always looks forever; 4. stone - a material used not only for the sake of flower beds, but also for paving
The general consonance of the place is achieved by adding ornamental paths or ponds to the flowerbed, in the decoration of which, too, pebbles are used. For example, pebbles or marble chips.
General rules for placing a flower bed
If you do not have a simple frame of pebbles, and the whole flower bed, the introduction of pebbles of the 1st type and identical geometry is not an indispensable condition. The use of various pebbles, any of which will be reprimanded, may prove to be a successful finding. However, one should not forget that the main taste in decorating only the garden, its buildings and flower beds is forced to remain.
There are general rules for breaking the flower beds, which need to be taken into account:
beautiful flowerbeds of pebbles should be occupied without reason, so as not to move, not to move, but to amuse: for this purpose, a room along the wall of the house or in the central part of the garden is suitable
Plants need conditions for growth and flowering, therefore, they should be chosen according to the criterion of similar comfort criteria, for example, fern and periwinkle prefer a shaded part of the garden, and marigolds and lupines are photophilous plants
Planting plants should take into account their news to moisture, dimensions and other characteristics
the flower bed itself must have a rather ordinary shape;
it's easier to perform one huge flower bed than two small ones.
The latter law is simply taken into account, since the least effort does not always provide the chosen outcome. The number and position of flower beds is dependent on the overall design of the site. A small, but colorful flowerbed, located near the fence, like refreshing the look of the site and does not interfere with the walks and rest of summer residents
A flowerbed with the use of pebbles in the center of the site forms its place for recreation, who is able to change everything, for example, a gazebo
Arrangement of the flowerbed with fencing of stones
It is allowed, of course, to perform an ordinary flower garden and decorate it with a curb of natural stone, but more often owners of sites prefer to make the highest flower beds of stone. They look more impressive and thorough. For the sake of such a structure should lay stones in pretty levels, while the fence for the flower garden does not reach a suitable elevation.
The structure of the stone flowerbed will have to start from the foundation. Take the twine, pegs and note the alleged placement of the flower garden. In accordance with its perimeter, we dig a trench approximately 30 cm deep and a width corresponding to the size of the pebbles, who will be applied. You can remove the discharge of earth from the entire surface of the flower garden. It is not difficult to win a flower bed from stones: it is necessary to execute the base, wait until it dries, pours the soil and plant the plants.
For the bottom of the resulting deepening, it is permissible to solve cephalic or ruberoid. Now it is allowed to pour a concrete foundation. A solid and finished to use base is a pretty base for the sake of a stone flowerbed. Lay stones should be for the entire dried base. Activate the bed for a concrete foundation freely. If you limit yourself to a groove in accordance with the perimeter of the structure, you must lay it with geotextiles and sleep for a third of the sand. For compacted dust stack the most powerful stones. Natural stones are heterogeneous and valuable specifically for the uniqueness of their own sizes and shapes. However, the naturalness of the pebbles leads to the fact that it is rather difficult for them to adjust the well-wisher to a friend. The gaps that appear between the stones are filled with earth, which must be perfectly compacted. Now the pebbles will be half-peeking out of the trench, densely fixed with sand and earth. They will become the basis for the whole design.
For the sake of the following masonry, a solution may exist. If the flower bed is rather of pebbles and cement, drainage holes should be anticipated in its lower layer. In addition, the cement must be extracted from the inside of the stones, so that the action of impassive masonry is preserved from the outside. The flower bed does not necessarily have to be of outstanding size: even a short flower bed is capable of paying attention to the taste of the site, making it more comfortable
Then the cementing of the cement from the garden sprayer for the appearance of the flowerbed is applied with a special sealant. He will prevent education in the joints of pebbles of various cracks. Remember, which is a suitable degree of strength cement mortar is not achieved at once, but only after a week. Then it is allowed to pour the land and plant the plants that are supposed to be planted all the time.

If the height of the structure is not enough to win 60 cm, then it is possible to do without cement. The stones are laid by a dry method, laboriously fitting their well-wisher to a friend and filling the voids with earth. A low structure of pebbles does not collapse, if you are trying to pick up pebbles in accordance with the form, minimizing the probable cavities.