Do you have the strange feeling that something is missing from your garden? Isn't it still as perfect and flawless as you've always wanted?

Perhaps you have forgotten an element, very often underestimated, such as stones that manage to give a natural, elegant and almost wild look without too many artifices.

If you are thinking that in addition to building a driveway they are not essential for your garden with this article you will change your mind.

The most used stones in the garden

As we well imagine, the stones used in our gardens are small, the most used are:

• Pebbles: stones worked mechanically for a single aesthetic purpose, specifically, they are rounded and smoothed. They are larger stones than granulate.
• The granulate: it is a natural composition of unprocessed natural stones and have much smaller shapes than pebbles. The types of granulate are marble and granite, with decorative stones or glass.

Before choosing the type of stone suitable for your garden, you must first understand which project it is intended for. First of all, understand what its function will be (driveway, path, car boundaries, etc.), secondly in which position (in the shade or in the sun) and thirdly the size of the stones.

How to use stones in your gardens

Stones, of any nature, can be used for many functions.

Yes, most of the time they are used to make them the classic driveways as it represents a sort of 'invitation to enter', a sort of runner so in this case too you need to choose the style and how you want it to be. Pathways have seen all types from the saddest to the most banal but in reality it takes very little to create a beautiful driveway. Your choice may vary between pebbles, grit, nuggets white, gray and if you want something more particular you can also find red ones.

If you don't want to fall back into the banal with small stones that accompany the door of the house, you can opt for the limestone stones, pay attention only to the size of the stones! Too big they could make the route impracticable.

The other alternative to small stones are stone slabs. It is a more creative choice as you can choose the size, regularity or irregularity of the slabs.

As mentioned above, there are many other solutions, in addition to the driveway, to integrate stones into your garden.

For example, create low walls to delimit the area of ​​the house and avoid building the usual Tom Sawyer fences and create particular stone walls also making them personal.

How? By inserting your favorite flowers, embellish it with vines or plants at the base to make everything even more beautiful and why not even colourful.

Further idea regarding the stones and to delimit the spaces of your garden to give it further importance as a frame for your rose gardens or to delimit the swimming pool.

Don't forget that, like everything else, the stones of the garden must coordinate with the style of the house. Do you have a houseto in the mountains or  apartment in the center of Florence? Do you prefer a rustic, natural and irregular look or a modern style with clear surfaces and squared shapes? These are all questions to keep in mind when choosing any type of furniture.

New fad, rock gardens of course!

All the rage these days are the rock gardens, you ask what are they?

It's a completely customized green space, imagine a garden where rocks of various sizes and shapes form the backdrop for your vegetation. The positions of the rocks are perfectly studied as well as that of the plants, all to lead to a unique, inimitable and above all relaxing result.

The stones to be inserted in your garden if you want to reproduce it must be of various sizes, so as to create movement and make everything more natural. Stones of the same size are useful for delimiting small flower beds but remember that well-defined lines and precise shapes don't get along with this style of garden. Rocks play a fundamentally important role, because in addition to being a wonderful aesthetic element, they also serve to create solid and characteristic terraces. It is possible to use local rocks or choose, in the largest garden centres, stones for low walls, monoliths of different sizes and pebbles for natural flooring of the rock garden.

As for the coupling of plants with rocks, I advise you not to take the first ones that happen but to think carefully about what you want to create, a confusing mix will only give you an unwanted effect. Recommended in this context are the alpine plants and rock plants.

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