Landscape design of garden plots using stones! 80 ideas for inspiration!

Landscape design of garden plots using stones! 80 ideas for inspiration!

If you have long wanted to transform your site, pay attention to the stone. It is an amazingly functional and incredibly decorative material that can change the look of your garden in no time.
Stone is a versatile material that can fit into almost any style of garden decor. We bring to your attention some simple, but at the same time very effective options for using stones in garden decor.
Gabion bench
If you are looking for a simple but original solution for arranging a recreation area, pay attention to gabion structures. With the help of gabions, you can not only build a partition that separates the resting place from the rest of the site, but also make an original bench.
The seat of such structures, as a rule, is made of wood. You can lacquer the wood to make it look natural and laconic, or paint the wood with the appropriate paint – in this case, bright and saturated tones will help to set the necessary accents.
Decorative pond with gabion bowl
Do you want to equip a decorative pond on your site that would require minimal maintenance, but are you afraid that the plastic pond will not look too presentable? Pay attention to the original solution with a round plastic pond installed in the gabion bowl. If you supplement the design with a seat, you will end up with not just an element of decor, but a full-fledged place to relax.
Stone pedestal
If, after arranging the site, you still have bricks or paving slabs, it is absolutely not necessary to hide them in a barn or workshop in the hope that they will someday come in handy. So, for example, from them you can build a pedestal for a figurine, flowerpot or bowl. The main thing is to choose such a figure or container that would be stylistically combined with the pedestal. Otherwise, instead of the original decorative element, you will get a design that will cause your garden visitors not admiration, but bewilderment.
Dumping from stone
The combination of stone and wood is a win-win classic. The main thing is to be able to choose the right materials for mulching. They must be combined according to three criteria: texture, color and fraction. If you make a mistake in at least one of them, the composition will turn out to be faded and inexpressive.
Alpine slides
Do not think that rock gardens are complex and time-consuming decorative elements. Competently composing a composition is not so difficult, it is much more difficult to fit it into the surrounding landscape.
Alpine slides look most impressive in areas with difficult terrain. It is here that the decorative potential of these compositions is best revealed. If there are no natural elevation differences on your site, then it will be much more rational to equip not an alpine hill, but a rockery.
rockery
Rockery differs from rock garden in that at the forefront of such compositions are not plants, but stones. However, even if you manage to create a composition verified to the smallest detail, in which there is nothing superfluous, this may not be enough.
Just like rock gardens, rockeries are not so easy to fit into the general plan of the garden. Such a flower garden should fully comply with the style of the site. Otherwise, you run the risk of getting not an authentic composition, but a bunch of stones overgrown with grass in the middle of a well-groomed lawn.
gravel garden
Gravel gardens may seem unnatural or even lifeless to some, but it is precisely such compositional solutions that can be an excellent way out of a situation where you are faced with the task of arranging a low-maintenance garden.
Of course, there are certain difficulties in arranging such a flower garden, but in reality all obstacles turn out to be easily overcome. For more information on how to properly equip a gravel garden on your site, you can read in our separate article.
Fencing for flower beds
Stone fences for flower beds always look solid and monumental. You can build a fence from any one material or show your imagination and try to combine several types of stones at once. A tall flower garden bordered with stones of different textures will look good in an English garden or a country-style garden.
Please note that often the term “moss” means not only plants of the Bryophytes department, but also lichens, as well as some herbs that look like mosses, but are not.

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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