The use of stones in garden design: 4 ideas to make the plot prettier
The desire for beauty, inherent in every man, has different expressions. One of them is the desire to make your home beautiful and cozy. This applies to both home and local area. It is no accident in the past while there are many interesting trends in landscape design. For example, the creation in the garden of various compositions of rocks. Stone is a natural material, is well combined with the green grass and trees. You can create a rock garden with his own hands, this kind of design of the garden came to us from Japan, and if you are prone to contemplation and meditation, a rock garden in the country will tune you into a contemplative mood, distraction from the everyday hustle and bustle.
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Option #1 — a rock garden in the Japanese style
How to make a rock garden? It’s quite simple. The Japanese have this art takes a special master, but for Europeans the stone garden – mainly decorative element, and therefore the task of creating it easier. You will need: several large stones-natural shape – large pebbles or boulders; sand, gravel or small pebbles.
The ideal for the rock garden area is prepared in the same way as for the gravel garden. You need to remove the soil at 8-10 cm, to remove the roots of weeds, the plot is fence with a rope stretched over the pegs. The bottom of the recess to make the agricultural fiber, and the top to add a layer of pebbles, sand, or gravel. On the edge to set the border. Now you need to position pebbles on the surface (or other material) large stones. Place them the way you intuitively. You need to in the end, the composition looked harmonious. The area around the stones can be visualized stains, resembling the circles of water. Optionally, in a rock garden can be planted and plants, but they should not be much.
The garden of stones, the granite boulders, pebbles of different sizes and gravel. A small amount of green plants greatly enlivens the picture
A rock garden is created according to the rules of Feng Shui, it must contain elements of the four elements – earth, fire, water and air. If you have a pond on plot no, circles around the stones will be imitation. Make your rock garden a place for reflection, perhaps it is here you will visit a good ideas about solving problems.
Classic rock garden of boulders and gravel. Flat stones laid on the gravel, form an interesting track
Stones garden design can make it a very picturesque area, this material is good because it allows you to create compositions according to their own taste, which will decorate your garden.
This beautiful track can be created from pebbles about the same size in different colors. if the dark stone is not enough, you can use paint for the stones and lacquer
Option #2 — painting on stones
Painted stones for the garden – another popular trend in landscape design. Skillfully painted stone comes alive, turning into a cute animal, a funny dwarf or a bouquet of flowers.
Rounded pebble — the perfect shape for painting. It can be turned into a figure of a reclining animal, insect, berry
You’ll need acrylic paint on stone, the solvent for them, synthetic brushes and a mixing palette. Brushes should be several. To figure look more perfect, you need to use a thin and wide brush. As a palette for mixing colors, you can use any plastic container. For the final processing of the painted stones will need clear lacquer.
Stones for painting you need to choose round or flat shape. It happens that any stone is reminiscent of an animal, and paint will only help to show that image in reality.
Paint rocks under the ladybug and other bright bugs is easy, they can be used to create a vivid interesting composition
The professionals recommend before you start working to process the stone with primer and apply the background. If you have no bright stones, any stones can be painted bright paint to dry, and then apply the pattern. If you are an artist, any better stories to copy. The most simple image – ladybugs, beetles, emoticons. Draw a cat or puppy, too easy, a rock in the grass at the first glance be taken for a living animal. First image is applied on the stone in pencil and then you can proceed to coloring tassels.
Images of flowers painted on the stones can be as good as real flowers, but it’s not easy to pick up a stone of the desired shape, sometimes over a form you need to work on more
Option #3 — creation of the Alpine hills
A mound of stones in the garden always looks attractive, especially if the stones grow flowers. The beauty of the mountain slopes in the spring where bright flowers bloom among the stones, seemed so impressive the lovers that she began to reproduce, creating the rockery in the gardens. The Alpine slide is better to arrange in a Sunny spot of the garden, on the hillside or on the hill. In the location, removed a layer of soil up to 40 cm To the bottom of the deepening need to fill a layer of broken bricks or gravel to here from the root zone of plants dripping with excess water. Garden soil should be mixed with gravel (3:1) to provide good drainage.
After that is created directly by the slide. On the surface arbitrarily lay the stones flat side down, about a third of the stone should be under the ground. Designers are advised to stick to one kind of stones, mixing several varieties, but if you see that combination of stones is good, why not try?
To create this roller coaster used various stones, fastened with cement mortar. Between the stones grow a variety of plants flowers, the result is a striking scenic area
Well set off the gray color of the stones delicate leaves of ferns and flowers for the slides can be used not only Alpine, among rocks look good in almost any colors.
Option #4 — single stone composition
The composition of the stones in the garden looks organic, making the style of the garden more rich and complex. To create compositions can be used as natural stones and stone creations of designers. Of stones for gardens can be purchased in the store, custom made.
In a secluded corner of the garden you can locate a fantastic sculpture — an expression of designer imagination
Funny cat created from round pebbles of different sizes, ears, tail and a bird — elements of forging
This can be a fantastic composition, located in a secluded corner of the garden and suddenly opening your eyes or a bright and attractive group of stones in the center. The main thing – that it is not distracting from the overall style solutions. Show imagination, creating stone sculptures in the garden. Co-creation of man and nature is always inspiring — you can become a co-Creator of these works of landscape art.