Landscaping Using Rocks

3 Simple Tips To Beautify Your Garden With Rocks


Try the new ideas with rocks.
Please read on...and hopefully this way you will be motivated to get more innovative with ideas.

1. Rocks can make a beautiful Landscape

Many may not understand how rocks can be used for landscaping and may laugh at the idea. But if you really think about the way nature has put rocks around certain areas and how good they look, then you will probably understand that rocks can make a statement in landscaping too. For those who go for their morning walk on the beach, you may have noticed the smooth rocks lying around on the beach that enhance the beauty of the sea side, well these same rocks could be used for landscaping too.

2. Start your landscape with rocks at your front yard

Visualize where to put the rocks in your front yard first. These rocks should be fairly large and placed firmly in the ground so that they cannot be dislodged from the ground easily either by weather conditions or by people.


3. Landscaping the front yard or back yard with rocks

You can arrange these rocks around trees to form a border or on the side of the walkway. So if you have a walkway and some trees in your front yard you can use the rocks the same way too. Front yards may differ from one to the other, but you could create effects with rocks so that they blend into a picturesque landscape.

Rocks can be used in the back yard the same way by making borders with them around trees and bushes and at the side of walkways. Rocks can be placed wherever you want in the garden and create an aesthetic effect in the way they are placed.

In a flower garden where you have flower beds with different varieties of flowers, smaller pebbles can be placed in the flower beds in place of mulch. The areas where you have grown different flowers can be separated with these pebbled. Pebbles also stop the growth of weeds just like mulch. The only problem with pebbles is that they move out of place with rain or when people walk on them, unlike large rocks which are stationery. Pebble rocks could be replaced with flagstones is you find them cumbersome.

To get more innovative ideas on the use of pebbles and rocks you can look for books on gardening which will give you a lot of information.

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