Ideas for decorating the garden and backyard: colored decorative stones in landscape design!

Ideas for decorating the garden and backyard: colored decorative stones in landscape design!

Decorative colored crushed stone for landscape design is an original solution for decorating a garden area. With the help of such an attribute, it will be possible to decorate not only flower beds, but also to delimit the plot into several zones. We offer you to get acquainted more closely with the features of decorative crushed stone, as well as the technology of its coloring.
Colored crushed stone – small stones (fraction – 10-15 mm), having a cubic shape, painted in bright colors. At industrial enterprises, special coloring pigments are used, which are resistant to external factors, they are non-toxic, therefore they are safe for soil and garden plantings. Painted gravel crushed stone is also characterized by resistance to frost, UV exposure. Crushed stone belonging to the first class of radioactivity is suitable for use in garden design.
In addition, decorative gravel plays a practical role. Crushed stone is often used for drainage, maintaining water balance in the ground, it passes moisture well, does not allow it to erode. Thanks to the rubble, weeds do not grow on the site. It is used to create compositions, tracks, different decorations, different styles. You can buy decorative crushed stone for landscape design in construction stores.

We create colored crushed stone with our own hands
2 types of stones are suitable for coloring: granite rubble; marble rubble. It is recommended to choose stones of identical sizes for coloring. For the selection of crushed stone, a metal mesh is used, which has small cells to perform “sifting”. It is not necessary to measure the material to accurate indicators, the main thing is to eliminate large specimens.
Before painting, the gravel must be washed. To do this, the stones are laid out on a prepared metal mesh, dipped in water. The washed material is poured onto a film or unnecessary linoleum, left to dry for 30-60 minutes. To paint the stones, water-based and acrylic weather-resistant curb paints are used. For quick staining, a concrete mixer is used. The dried material is poured into a bowl, the paint is poured in several passes, adjusting the desired saturation. The painted material is pulled out of the concrete mixer, laid out on a grid to drain the remnants of the pigment. In the absence of a concrete mixer, it is better to buy spray paint.
Colored stone for landscape design is used to create colorful drawings on flower beds, to decorate the recreation area. It is also used to form original inscriptions on pedestrian paths. With the help of decorative miniature stones, they perform: revenge around the house, pool or gazebos; paths on playgrounds for children; features at the bottom of ponds; framing garden sculptures, monuments. The decoration of gravel benches, the territory around planted ornamental trees looks original.

This video is educational in nature! Author of the channel “100 Ideas!” demonstrates garden and backyard ideas and explains their merits.
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