From what we can make unusual garden paths?

Paving tiles - that is understandable, accessible, beautiful and practical. And that is why most homeowners prefer this, traditional, variant design tracks. Meanwhile, the garden path can be made from a wide range, even b / y materials. Perhaps someone such path will seem strange, wild or deliberate negligence, but that it will only benefit!

ready modules

Perhaps the easiest option for the track - finished plastic or rubber modules. They are suitable for those who do not have time to build a thorough coating.

Matched modules - a good option to create temporary tracks.

What else is good these tracks? They are inexpensive, durable, reliable and do not form puddles (in modules have holes, where it goes water), do not require constant care (them periodically hose). Installing and removing such elements quickly and easily, regardless of the basis.

As a general rule, at the end of the summer season splicers modules is removed, washed, dried and cleaned before next year.

The path meadow

Green, grass track, it would seem, to organize, too easy: the grass planted, and no messing around with concrete and construction of basements. But anyone who has dealt with a lawn knows that, and sowed it properly and take care of him - not so easy. Watering, fertilizing, cutting track, to make aeration of the soil have the same way as on an ordinary lawn. A walk on the grassy paths will only be a few months after sowing grass (usually - not earlier than six months).

For herbal tracks fit tight and short grass, resistant to trampling - mixture for sports and children's playgrounds. What would you pitch in a track has been more stable, experts advise to increase the seeding rate, recommended on the packaging.

Turf track is nice because even on a hot day remain cool. On them a pleasure to walk barefoot, but not after the rain. Herbal track well with other materials - brick, wood, gravel.

Green trails dot the landscape, bring it to a natural, landscape style. Particularly impressive look herbal tracks bordered rabatki from dense, monochrome groups annuals or perennials Mixborders with different shapes, colors and height.

stone path

Large plates, small pieces, carefully cut or "ragged" edges - natural stone will look beautiful on any site. This path will last for many years, but it has one feature: the stone covered with ice in the winter and will slide. Therefore, at the time of cold for these tracks it is desirable to provide anti-skid system or "defrosting".

Landscape designers recommend to use for the track granite, marble, basalt, sandstone, limestone. The last two types of stone are cheaper.

The stone can be placed in a certain order or randomly "scattered" in the place where the path will run. Naturally and harmoniously will look in the garden path between the stone elements of which breaks the grass or moss. Another interesting solution - a combination of stone slabs and gravel.

Brick

Fired brick with properties similar to the stone. Beautiful, durable, long time it retains its original color. But there is one advantage over brick with stone slabs - light weight and portability. Arrange a brick path will be much easier than a stone.

This material can form any pattern: bricks laid lengthwise, crosswise, herringbone, etc., alternated elements of different colors. It looks interesting track, which, along with the brick, use stone tiles or gravel.

A low-cost path can be laid out from the old bricks, for example, what was left after the dismantling of any buildings.

lacy asphalt

Already have an asphalted or concreted track? Though reliable, but they look sad. But do not despair: unusual garden paths can be drawn from the existing ones. To do this you will need the stencil, bright paint for exterior use on concrete, roller and brush (tint where the roller will not cope).

Use ready-made plastic stencil with a beautiful pattern or homemade: cut patterns on a piece of transparent plastic, placing it on the picture and secure with tape so as not to shift. The more stencils you have, the work will go faster: while one dries through other patterns can be applied to the other edge of the track.

The tracks of the rings for the well

If you have lying around in the country suddenly inlaid rings well, unusual paving can be made of them. Put a ring where necessary, sinking them into the ground. Pour cement-sand mortar (as a plasticizer, some gardeners use detergent - one bucket at a handful of solution). Top neatly lay out a beautiful, textured stones and remains of ceramic tiles and let dry. Beautiful tiles ready!

So that the tiles do not accumulate water, the stones have to be laid flush with the rim or ring so that the stones were little.

concrete fantasy

Options for tracks made of concrete - a lot. The most simple - pour concrete on the entire path and you arrange borders (stone, brick, etc.).

This track will look more interesting, if you give it wrong, serpentine shape.

Option 2 - "autumn leaf fall". Stone leaves can be filled by means of special (or self-made) forms using burdock leaves as hereOr leaving the imprint of leaves on concrete slabs.

Option 3 - plastic mold. How to make them, says this article.

Option 4 - concrete circles. They can be embedded in the ground or lay in the middle of pebbles or gravel. Circular shapes can be manufactured from cut plastic buckets. The mold is put on a flat surface such as a sheet of plywood or cardboard. After pouring the concrete surface it is well aligned.

Remove the wheels from the mold only when the concrete dries, about a couple of days. To do this, tap the edges of the form.

Option 5 - concrete tiles with a pattern. Made of the same cement-sand mixture, over which, as is the case with rings for the well, fit various small materials: stones, shells, pieces of tiles, colored pieces of glass, coins, keys, Beads et al. The sample material is first laid out on the sand. If you like the pattern, it spread in the concrete mass.

Plates larger sizes are cast on site.

covered with tracks

One of the simplest and most common options covering garden paths - backfilling with gravel, gravel, broken bricks, slag, sand. The main advantage of the sandy tracks - that they are inexpensive and well absorb rainwater. Significant disadvantage - during rainstorms this coating becomes too soft, and in windy conditions - dusty. In addition, through the sand and gravel can sprout weeds.

The coating is not scattered, the tracks make below ground level. Pre-pits are placed at the bottom of a special material which does not allow filling deep into the ground. Loose materials poured layers, spilling water and tamping well. To backfill not sprawling, but the track did not get the land, they shield the border of concrete, stone, brick, wood and other materials.

Wood

Today is a very popular wood cover for the tracks. Most suitable for paving larch wood which has a beautiful color, waterproof and resistant to wear. One of the more expensive solutions - finished decking.

This coating looks solid and is used for many years. Another advantage of the material - to replace some of the boards will be easy when necessary.

Even if a few years the tree will lose the form, and through the plaque starts to germinate the grass, the coating will look cute.

You can not put a wooden plank vsploshnuyu and Example sleepers and covered the distance between them, such as gravel.

Wooden saw cut - a separate, large and interesting topic. It tells a little about here and ethat article,.

You can put on a great path "of wood." A possible voids between large Spila fill in many small.

Inexpensive or even free option for tracks - used wooden pallets. Disassemble them to Boards or place, as is - in its entirety.

To wood coatings serve for a long time, protect them from external influences by special means.

pebble

In addition to the sand, there is another way to move your piece of land sea beach - pebbles. According to this coating is pleasant to walk barefoot.

Pebbles, you can simply fill up the entire track or to form circles or other shapes on the lawn.

Oriental looks exquisitely mosaic of pebbles. But this version of the laborious covering garden paths will require from you a lot of time and effort. You will have to look at every pebble and find their place in the pattern for him.

Under a mosaic of pebbles make the gravel bed and cement screed. For use mosaic stones with a smooth surface. Spread pattern of fragments, aligning their wood stove.

Increase the attractiveness of track use of contrasting colors pebbles. To facilitate the work, shingles can be laid on the sand, in a wooden frame, and alternate with other materials.

ceramic mosaic

Unusual garden paths are obtained not only from stones, but pieces of tile, which has remained on the repair of the house. Whole tile can be carefully cut or broken into pieces - and in fact, and in another case, it provides a great opportunity for creativity.

Caps and bottles

An interesting variant of arrangement of garden paths - colored plastic cover and glass bottles. Last suitable for borders and devices. Material - affordable and gratuitous. The only thing which determines whether you implement this idea in life - if you can gather as much material. But, if to seek help from friends and acquaintances, to cope with this problem will be easier.

glowing track

Exclusive solution for garden paths - various luminescent coatings and devices. About pebbles fixtures we wrote here. About concrete with beads and tiles with integrated light pipes can be read here. This material It tells the story of the fluorescent pavement.

And what coverage prefer ForumHouse.ru participants and how they make garden paths, you will learn from This forum threads.

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