Making The Most Of Garden FeaturesMaking the Most of Garden Features

Owning and maintaining a garden is a hobby that many Australians spend hours on every week, always striving for an unreachable perfection but happy to continue toiling in the pursuit of the impossible. One of the main features of any garden, whether it be the front or the back, is the ability to walk through it and enjoy its beauty and serenity. While sometimes you may want to take a stroll off-road through the grass, generally people prefer to have a set pathway, and here are some reasons why.  

Why Do I Need A Path In My Garden?

There are two main reasons why your garden needs a path to feel complete. The first is that a path provides a framework that you can design your garden around, like how the foundations support the more visible features of a house. The path helps you organise and compartmentalise different areas of the garden, keeping flowers in one section and bigger plants in a different section and so on. The second reason is that, because the path helps you organise your garden, it also allows you to enjoy the best aspects of the garden by taking you past them, one at a time. Having a path allows you to design the garden around it and, therefore, makes you think about the best possible way to present it, leading you to design a better garden in the process. 

What Should I Use To Make My Garden Path?

While there are many different options from which you can choose to make a garden path out of, the best and most natural way to implement a pathway is through pavers. Pavers are the logical choice because you can either make a totally compact path or space out the pavers like stepping stones through your green river. Pavers allow you more freedom than other materials like brick or cement because they can stand alone and fit much more naturally into your garden because of this. You never want to distract from the garden with your path and cement veins running through them will do exactly that. Instead, use some pavers and keep the feeling of your garden peaceful. The other benefit of pavers is that they are easy to change if you don't quite like one design. Just dig them up and try something else.

Synthesis 

Remember the most important part of implementing a garden path is to synthesise it with the rest of the yard. You want the two to compliment each other and work together as one so that they are inseparable from each other. This process can take a little bit of time, and that's okay, remember that as long as you get it right in the end, the work will be worth it.