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Landscape Ideas about Using Stone Pathways by Vicky Smith
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Stone pathways are a surprisingly versatile landscaping design element. Depending on the stone and the configuration chosen, a stone path can be rustic, invoke a simple sophistication or add formality to a garden or backyard design. Stone can be used to add color, texture and shape to your outdoor landscaping. From simple paving stones to carefully crafted masonry walkways, stone pathways offer many options for landscape designers. Create a Strolling Garden To call a Japanese stroll garden "a nice place to take a walk" is akin to calling the "Mona Lisa" a pretty drawing. Developed during the centuries following the Japanese medieval period, stroll gardens make use of different types of paths to enhance a total sensory experience. The designer uses the layout and the materials of the paths and walkways to encourage contemplation and reveal different aspects of the garden. To recreate the feeling of a strolling garden, use different textures of garden stone paths to curve around naturally occurring landscape features and to lead from one area of the yard to another. A paved stone path leading from the patio to a sheltered nook might curve around a tree and become a sand gravel walkway that wanders between patches of herbs. Stepping stones meandering around the corner of the house invite visitors to follow the walkway to the back patio, or under a rose arbor to a wooden swing. Try to arrange the garden so that each twist and turn of the path presents a new view or vista to the eye. Gordon Hayward, master designer and author of "Garden Paths: Inspiring Designs and Practical Projects," refers to paths and walkways as "lines of communication." In his introduction to that book, Hayward describes how the landscaping for his own home evolved from a single pathway created to connect a spring garden to an herb garden that were dissimilar in design. "Instantly," he writes, "the two gardens were drawn into a relationship with each other." Stone pathways do more than connect one area of your yard to another. They also serve as a transition between functional areas. When deciding on the maintenance material for a stone path between two areas in your landscape, look for common features that can be tied together. A formal flagstone patio may seem to have little in common with a garden gazebo, but a path made of the same flagstone tiles--set wide enough apart to allow grass to grow between the stones--can bring the two together. Add a border of irises along the side of the path and around the gazebo, and you've created a seamless transition between the two parts of your landscape. Just as paths connect, they also separate. Paths and walkways create natural borders between gardens and lawn or around the edges of garden beds. Paths are a necessity in gardens--they give gardeners access to tend the plants and define the borders between different types of plantings. When those pathways are paved or lined with crushed stone or gravel, they transcend their function and become part of the overall design of the landscape.
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