Decorative gravel and pebbles ideas. Natural stone for backfilling. Varieties of decorative filling

The use of dumps in the landscape - organic mulch, chipped or rounded small stones, sand, etc. - literally transforms the backyard. They can be used very widely - from paving paths and patios to decorating flower beds. Where accuracy is especially in demand, they cannot be dispensed with.

Mulching (namely, this is the name of the use of dumping of any kind) has a long history, its own traditions and laws. Every gardener knows about the beneficial properties of mulch: it helps to almost completely exterminate weeds; protects the soil from night frosts in the spring and autumn and from deep freezing in winter (for example, in places covered with nutshells it will be 10-15 cm, and in uncovered places - 20-25 cm or more); prevents overheating, drying and caking of the surface layers of the earth. In addition, some dumping can serve as a source of necessary substances for the soil (for example, needles can, where necessary, increase its acidity), create a barrier for pests and stimulate the reproduction of beneficial microorganisms.

The principles of using dumps change significantly over time. Their transformation is spurred both by the emergence of innovative materials and the birth of new styles. And if, say, in formal gardens (French, Italian, Moorish styles) they diligently sought to get rid of weeds by mulching large areas, then in naturgarden gardens, on the contrary, they welcome the invasion of wild plants and use dumping in a completely different context and in limited quantities - for example , to bring color to the garden palette.

All mulching materials are divided into organic and inorganic.

Colored decorative dumping is an invariable attribute of the design of alpine slides, rockeries, "dry streams" in Japanese gardens. With the help of bulk stone "mosaics", ornaments and panels, you can exclusively decorate the area of ​​fountains, water cascades, the banks of miniature artificial ponds

organic dumps

These include widely used wood chips and bark, fallen needles, cones, pine nut shells, forest and marsh moss. Peat, hay, straw and rotted leaves are also included here, but the difference is that they are no longer used for decorative purposes, but purely for pine nut shell benefits of the cause - as a fertilizer that simultaneously retains moisture in the soil and eliminates the growth of weeds.

Organic dumping is a real find for those who want to save money while creating a beautiful and well-groomed garden. Okorje, technological chips, peat, shells, sphagnum - all these materials are either inexpensive in themselves, or are industrial waste from various industries, which also makes them quite cheap. And coniferous litter, spruce, pine or cedar cones, if possible, are generally easy to collect on your own while walking through the forest, and in any quantities.

Perhaps the most popular variant of mulch - bark of Siberian pine and larch, so to speak, a by-product of woodworking enterprises. In the process of harvesting, the material is exposed to high-temperature effects, due to which it does not contain pests, microbes, and foreign impurities. It is especially good to use the bark for filling all conifers, heathers, rhododendrons, ferns. The bark rots for a long time and may not lose its decorative properties for two to three years. Sometimes it is dyed using only natural pigments.

Getting chips for dumping

Chips (sawdust, shavings) obtained from the trunks and stumps of trees. Like the bark, it can be dyed with organic dyes (yellow to black in color), although it is quite decorative on its own. This is an environmentally friendly material, most often made from hardwood. If you have a vegetable waste shredder in your arsenal of gardening equipment, then you can make your own mulch chips from tree branches cut when thinning crowns.

Mulch from bark and wood chips is poured with a layer of 5-10 cm around the plants, leaving a small distance to the stems free for air circulation. Weeds must first be removed and the soil loosened. If a geotextile layer will be used, then you need to remove the sod, select the top layer of soil (to a depth of 10 cm for flower beds, 20-25 cm for trees and 15-20 cm for shrubs) and put complex fertilizers into the loose soil of the bottom. Then the site is leveled, lightly tamped, geotextiles are laid and mulch is laid. It is recommended to install a low but solid border along the border of the backfill - so it will not spread beyond the trunk circle or mixborder and gradually litter the lawn.

If the site is sunny, the layer of mulch can be quite thick, but in those places where the shadow is always preserved, it is better to make the filling thinner - otherwise water will stagnate under it for a long time and the roots of the plants will begin to rot

Pine nut shell

Excellent mulch is obtained from shells of pine nuts. Such filling promotes the development of beneficial microflora in the root system of plants, prevents soil erosion, and has good moisture and air permeability. Since the composition of the shell includes substances such as lignin, phytoncides, flavonoids, it does not rot and decompose for a long time and retains its decorative effect for five years, you only need to add a fresh portion of material from time to time, and gently loosen the surface with a rake in spring.

In flower beds, shells cover the entire space between plants. Sod is removed under shrubs and trees (within a radius of at least 50 and 80-100 cm, respectively), the soil is dug up to a depth of 20-30 cm, compacted a little and covered with mulch with a layer of 7 to 15 cm. After that, so that it is not swept away by the wind, the shell should be spilled with water and lightly trampled.

In the spring, when cleaning the site after winter, decorative dumping should be renewed: they are slightly loosened, leveled and, if necessary, a fresh portion of the material is added. First of all, this is required by organic mulch, since in three to four years its lower layers rot, and it sags.

Decorative filling of the trunk circle

The disadvantage of the shell is that it is an excellent food for rodents, birds, which will attract them to plantings. Decorative properties of dumps of organic origin often make us forget about the caution of their use, but meanwhile they all change the properties of soils in one way or another. For example, peat, needles, pine and especially spruce cones affect the agrochemical characteristics of the soil - as agricultural technicians say, they acidify it. Therefore, they can only be mulched with those plants that benefit from increased acidity - in particular, these are any conifers, heather, rhododendrons, hydrangea, blueberries - or use them in combination with fallen leaves, hay, ash. In addition, along with coniferous litter and cones, fungal diseases (rust, root rot, etc.) can be brought to the site, and they will easily spread from mulch to garden crops. Pre-treatment of the mulching material with fungicidal preparations will help protect against this.

From the shells, tree bark and wood chips, you can not only make decorative filling in flowerbeds, beds and near-stem circles, but also create a soft coating on recreation areas and paths in the depths of the garden. This process is not particularly laborious. It is necessary to remove 10-15 cm of the top layer of soil, compact the base well and cover it with mulch. If the soil moisture is high here, it is better to first arrange drainage in the form of a gravel cushion 5-10 cm thick, and then fill it on top of it.

Properties and approximate price of various organic dumps

inorganic deposits

The most common inorganic deposits are gravel, pebbles, crushed stone (stone chips), sand. Expanded clay, due to its unpretentious "appearance" and literal weightlessness (easily washed off with water), is used more for drainage, and not for decorative purposes, however, if you show imagination, it can contribute to creating the image of the garden.

Options for inorganic backfills

In small quantities, other inert materials may be present on the site - for example, shells, glass pebbles (artificial soil) popular in the aquarium hobby, plastic granulate, or colored (environmentally friendly paints) bottle caps. True, their use should be limited by considerations of common sense and, above all, safety: it makes sense to make such dumping in high flower beds, be sure to surround it with a fence and assign them the role of certain accents rather than a background cover.

Inorganic dumps are good because they have a long service life, are not blown up by the wind and are not washed away by rains, and do not affect the composition of the soil in any way. However, they also have their drawbacks - it is difficult to remove small debris from such coatings, and besides, they do not accumulate water. The exception here is sand, which perfectly retains moisture, thereby creating a favorable microclimate near the surface of the earth.

Sand- the most accessible material, widely used in the improvement of adjacent territories. In addition to the usual quarry, washed and sifted river sand is sold, quartz (white and tinted with safe polymer dyes in all colors of the rainbow), calcined, intended for children's playgrounds, sandboxes and creating beach areas. A quality product does not contain impurities and has a homogeneous structure with the declared particle fraction (up to 1 or up to 3 mm).

The main advantage of inorganic mulch is durability, appearance and maintenance-free

The size of the stones used as backfills varies from 2 to 70 mm.

Especially popular with buyers is river and sea pebble, but it is relatively expensive and not available everywhere. However, the modern market offers its artificial counterpart. Moreover, this is not a polymer in its pure form, but a material that also contains natural components - quartzite, marble, gypsum. A wide color palette and the ability to imitate rare, and even unprecedented in nature, rock types are achieved thanks to coloring pigments.

Unlike rounded pebbles, gravel can be both smooth, rounded shapes, and angular. Natural shades - pinkish, beige, blue - make it attractive enough to be used in landscape design. Often, gravel filling is included in a composition made from different types of stones.

Even at the design stage, it is necessary to consider: will the planned composition withstand annual climate changes? You can invest a lot of money in a high-quality project and special effects, but, for example, a normal spring flood will mix with the soil or simply wash away expensive stone fill in the coastal zone of a pond or stream. The solution in this case may be the use of a special gravel film. If you lay out the coast with such material, then in the spring all the gravel will remain in the same place, despite the sharp change in the water level.

The widest decorative potential has stone chips, which is produced from a variety of rocks - marble, granite, limestone, quartzite, solar goldite, spotty emerald serpentine, multi-colored felsite, etc. The material is obtained by crushing, so the stones have an irregular shape and sharp chips, however, subjected to mechanical polishing - tumbling, they become completely smooth. In garden plots, tumbled crumb is preferable to untreated gravel, since it cannot injure a child, does not injure a dog's paws, and does not puncture a bicycle tire.

One of the main functions of stone fills is covering the blind area and footpaths, and not only secondary, as in the case of organic mulch, but also lying in the front part of the garden. (For car access, it is better to lay a hard tile or concrete canvas: cars slip on a loose coating, it is difficult to clean it from snow and ice.)

Ornamental plants are undoubtedly the main decoration of the garden. However, there are other materials that can decorate the landscape. These can be various stones, fences, small architectural forms, as well as decorative dumping, which have become increasingly popular in recent years. This is an easy and simple way to improve the suburban area. It is worth understanding in more detail what they are and how to use them.

Decorative dumps

With the help of decorative dumping, you can change the look of the garden:

• re-emphasise,
• create an individual style.

In addition, the dumps are excellent mulch:

• weeds grow slower
• moisture evaporation is reduced
• crust does not form on the soil surface.

Dumps can also be used as a replacement for a classic lawn.

For decorative filling in landscape design, a variety of bulk materials are used - organic and inorganic.

Decorative inorganic fills

Inorganic deposits include:

• gravel,
• pebbles
• baby,
• seashells,
• colored glass.

Inorganic decorative fillings are great for decorating ponds, alpine slides, rockeries and sandy gardens.

1. With the help of waves, stripes and circles of gravel and crumbs, a beautiful plant can be distinguished: for this, they choose backfilling, contrasting coloring of leaves and flowers.
2. Large surfaces covered with a homogeneous material of the same color, or a combination of areas of contrasting colors, look most impressive.

Advantages of inorganic deposits:

1. long service life,
2. unchanged appearance.
3. they require almost no care,
4. protect the soil from overheating and do not retain water,
5. they do not need to be fertilized, watered, mowed,
6. plants germinated from arrived seeds are easy to weed out,
7. in spring, places with decorative filling are the first to thaw, and you can immediately walk on them.

Cons of inorganic dumps:

• fairly light littering with plant litter,
• however, cleaning is also not very burdensome, an ordinary broom will help here.

Decorative gravel and pebbles

Crushed granite gravel of various fractions, river and sea pebbles are often used as backfill. They are small fractions of natural stone with rounded or pointed shapes.

• The intricate pattern of gravel in different shades and sizes of stone creates an interesting sense of decorative landscape.
• Rounded, or vice versa, rigid contours of the pattern of dumping create a peculiar effect, due to which the site looks more attractive.

Decorative crumbs

This is the smallest of the materials of the "stone" line.

1. It happens granite , marble , quartzite chit.
2. Natural granite chips - a mixture of sand, gray and reddish shades.
3. It can be painted in any color, but such a crumb is much more expensive than natural.

It must be borne in mind that under granites and shales, the soil quickly becomes acidic.

In shady areas of the garden, you can not use marble chips, moss and mold quickly attack it there. In addition, the crumb eventually “leaks” into the ground, so it’s better to put geotextiles under it, and protect it from spilling with a curb.

Decorative shells and glass

As a spectacular addition, you can use unusual types of dumping, such as seashells and colored glass .

1. They are especially beautiful in the design of reservoirs and dry streams.
2. Small glass balls of blue, green and purple look very original with white shells and large bluish-gray pebbles.

Decorative organic dumps

Among the decorative organic dumps, the most popular are:

1. cedar husk,
2. pine bark,
3. wood chip.

Most organic dumps acidify the soil!

When using decorative fillings of organic origin in flowerbeds, tree trunks, etc. - wherever they are laid directly on the ground, it should be borne in mind that the bottom layer of mulch that rots over time changes the composition of the soil on which it lies.

Pros of organic dumping:

1. of course, a common plus of all organic dumping is their cheapness,
2. spectacular appearance that creates a feeling of warmth and comfort.

Cons of organic dumping:

• Relatively short service life
• relative lightness of the material.

Decorative pieces of bark

1. Like pine nut shells, pine bark is very durable,
2. does not rot for a long time,
3. does not fade in the sun
4. is environmentally friendly and safe for humans and the environment.

Decorative dumping from wood chips and husks

Wood decorative chips, cedar husks are used both in their natural form and dyed.

• With colored materials, you get a wide palette of colors to experiment with in the garden.
• But remember, bright saturated colors are inappropriate for a landscape style, and they are perfect for paths and playgrounds.

How to make decorative filling with your own hands

Before starting work, it is better to draw a layout plan for the site so that the new garden design element does not “stick out” like a foreign body in the middle of the landscape. Try not to choose strictly geometric shapes.

Where to start dumping:

1. it is necessary to remove the top fertile soil layer,
2. pick the roots of weeds,
3. carefully level and compact the soil.
4. Then lay dense geotextile or spunbond.

Covering material is better to take black.

• If you want to place plants on the backfill, you need to make cruciform cuts in the geotextile.
• So that the dumping of different colors does not mix, it is necessary to install a border tape along the contour of the picture.
• If you are making a path, then it is better to strengthen its edges with a stone or the same curb tape.

Immediately after laying, the decorative coating must be leveled, compacted and spilled with water.

Consumption of decorative filling

1. When backfilling, the layer thickness stone chips usually does not exceed 5 cm. On average, 4 large (12-liter) buckets of material are used per 1 m².
2. Thickness of decorative dumps from organic materials - 5-8 cm. On the track, the layer is made thicker - 7-10 mm.
3. One bag (60 l) wood chips enough to cover 1 m² with a layer of 3 cm.
4. Bag pine nut shells on the same area will give a layer of 4 cm.

One of the most beautiful and useful landscape techniques is decorative dumping. A variety of bulk materials are used to create them.

With the help of such coatings, you can change the look of the garden, place accents in a new way, create an individual style.

In addition, dumping is an excellent mulch: weeds grow more slowly, evaporation of moisture is reduced, and a crust does not form on the soil surface. Dumps can also be used as a replacement for a classic lawn.

Inorganic fills are great for decorating ponds, alpine slides, rockeries and sandy gardens. With the help of waves, stripes and circles of gravel and crumbs, you can accentuate a spectacular plant; for this, filling is chosen in contrast with the color of the leaves and flowers. Large surfaces covered with a homogeneous material of the same color, or a combination of areas of contrasting colors, look most impressive. Stone dumps are divided into gravel, pebbles and crumbs, depending on the size and shape of the pebbles.

Finely crushed natural stone has chipped, sharp or rounded surfaces. There is mono-mineral gravel, for example, from granite, and mixtures of different rocks: granite, sandstone, slate, marble and quartzite. It has many shades, which allows you to harmoniously "fit" it into any landscape design. Does not retain air and moisture, the soil under it does not overheat. The material is durable, does not fade, relatively inexpensive.

Pebble

It is a rounded small stones, rounded and polished by a river or sea wave. As a backfill, decorative pebbles are used - river, beige and sandy colors, and sea "shell rock" - gray, beige, brown and light pink. There is also man-made pebbles made in a special stone-working machine. For its manufacture, marble, granite, gneiss, quartzite, slate are used. From flagstone, pebbles are flat, and if the source material was rubble, it is voluminous. There are many multi-colored pebbles in pebbles, it is very decorative. The material is smooth, forms surfaces with a soft texture. Pebbles have a long service life and require almost no maintenance. The cost of all types of pebbles is quite high.

Chit

This is the smallest of the materials of the "stone" line: from 2.5 to 6 mm. There is granite, marble, quartzite chips, from anthracite, siltstone, shungite, etc. Natural granite chips - a mixture of sand, gray and reddish shades. Dyed comes in all colors, from dandelion yellow to Prussian blue, but it is much more expensive than natural blue. It must be borne in mind that under granites and shales, the soil acidifies quite quickly. In shady areas of the garden, you can not use marble chips, moss and mold quickly attack it there. In addition, the crumb eventually “leaks” into the ground, so it’s better to put geotextiles under it, and protect it from spilling with a curb.

Expanded clay

Light porous material in the form of oval granules, ocher color. Expanded clay is obtained by firing fusible clay. Very durable, frost-resistant and moisture-resistant material, chemically inert. Of all types of dumping, expanded clay is the least decorative. Usually it is used to decorate flowerpots.

unusual

As a spectacular addition, you can use unusual types of dumping, such as seashells and colored glass. They are especially beautiful in the design of reservoirs and dry streams. Small glass balls of blue, green and purple look very original with white shells and large bluish-gray pebbles.

How to do

1. Before starting work, it is better to draw a layout plan for the site so that the new garden design element does not “stick out” like a foreign body in the middle of the landscape. Try not to choose strictly geometric shapes.

2. Remove the top fertile soil layer, select weed roots, carefully level and compact the soil.

3. Lay dense geotextile or spunbond. Covering material is better to take black. If you want to place plants on the backfill, you need to make cruciform cuts in the geotextile.

4. So that the dumping of different colors does not mix with each other, install a border tape along the contour of the picture.

5. Immediately after laying, the decorative coating must be leveled, compacted and spilled with water.

How much to pour?

The thickness of the layer of stone chips usually does not exceed 5 cm. For 1 sq. m on average takes 4 large (12-liter) buckets. The thickness of the decorative filling of organic materials (wood chips, bark) is 5-8 cm. The layer is made thicker on the track - 7-10 mm. One bag (60 liters) of wood chips is enough to cover 1 sq. m with a layer of 3 cm. A bag of pine nut shells on the same area will give a layer of 4 cm.

Gardener's advice:

It is not easy to sweep debris from stone fills, so do not make them under plants that scatter leaves, petals, needles and seeds around them.

Materials for decorative dumping

Decorative dumping is called bulk materials of different fractions used for soil mulching. It can be fine and coarse gravel, stone chips, shells, sand, pebbles, wood chips, pine nut shells, bark and decorative "pebbles" made of plastic or glass.

The use of different decorative dumps in the landscape can transform the appearance of your site. A number of decorative compositions - rockery or rock garden, Japanese landscape, landscape pond, sandy garden - are unthinkable without dumping. In addition, they can be used to create patios and paths, and for flower beds. Mulching the soil protects it from excessive evaporation of moisture. And using multi-colored glass in the garden, colored decorative chips, filling with crushed stone of different shades, you can achieve phenomenal effects.

Decorative organic dumps

Among these dumps, the most popular are cedar husks and pine bark.

First of all, the advantages of pine bark include a long service life: the bark does not rot for a long time (especially large fractions), does not burn out. Still, such backfilling is an environmentally friendly material that fits into landscape compositions.

wood chips and cedar husk are painted in different colors and thus provide an extensive field for experimenting with coloring in the garden. Staining of wood chips is made with environmentally friendly paints. Of course, using colorful wood chips in the garden should be done with care: both the color of the mulch and the composition should be consistent with the surroundings.

Too bright colors of colored wood chips are out of place in landscape compositions. But a variety of colorings will allow you to create colored soft tracks.

The indisputable common advantage of these dumps is their cheapness. These materials themselves are inexpensive, and some of them (chips, bark) are by-products of wood processing industries.

The main disadvantage is the relatively short service life.

Using organic dumps in flowerbeds, in circles of trees - wherever they are laid directly on the ground - you need to keep in mind that over time, the rotting bottom layer of mulch changes the composition of the soil. Most of the organic dumps acidify the soil. For some plants, this property of decorative dumping can be an advantage - for example, for rhododendrons.

When laying decorative filling on the ground, it is advisable to add a small amount of material every year - firstly, this will allow you to maintain the appearance, and secondly, it provides compensation for decay.

inorganic deposits

These dumps include crushed stone, gravel of various fractions, pebbles (sea and river), sands. Also, inorganic dumpings include materials of artificial origin - plastic and colored glass (colored decorative "pebbles").

The advantage of inorganic deposits lies primarily in their long service life. Gravel filling does not crumble, does not change its appearance. Stone fills require almost no maintenance. In addition, gravel filling protects the soil from overheating and water does not linger.

One of the main disadvantages of inorganic backfills is that it is very difficult to remove accumulated debris (wood litter) from them, so it is better to place crushed stone paths and compositions with gravel backfill away from trees. Over time, decorative inorganic fills silt, soil particles, seeds and sand can get into them. As a result, weeds appear on the covered surface. But they fall out easily.

The use of decorative dumping in the garden

Dumping has become widespread in the design of patios and paths. But decorative dumping is also used as mulch in flowerbeds and for decorating near-trunk circles near trees.

For the design of the tracks, you can use all types of dumping. To form a path, it is necessary to dig a shallow pit, lay geotextiles, and then fill in the backfill.

The best layer is 7 cm. Using the same technology, huge free spaces can also be decorated with decorative filling. By combining decorative dumping of different colors and fractions, you can achieve beautiful effects. To diversify the composition, you can add a few expressive green plants.

To do this, an incision is made in the geotextile, a plant is planted in the resulting hole.

In addition, decorative dumping can be used as an element of various decorative compositions - to create "stone scree" in rockeries, on alpine slides and on the shore of a garden pond. Sometimes decorative dumping serves to emphasize certain certain plants.

Mulching with organic materials can be a good option when starting a garden and planting perennials. It is known that immediately after planting - traditionally losing for most perennials. If you plant them at a distance that is best for their further development, there will inevitably be earth between the flowers.

But if you decorate these spaces, for example, with wood chips, then the “bare earth” will look like part of the design idea, and your garden will take on a complete look.

With the beginning of the next summer season, it becomes possible to realize many ideas and plans that have been ripening in winter. One of the very popular ideas is the improvement and decoration of the territory adjacent to the country house - the front garden. It all depends on your imagination and free time. You can sow a neat grassy lawn, plant evergreens, or equip.

The most popular and most affordable option is the creation of flower beds and flower beds. But after all, you want to do a lot, which means that creating a flower bed should not take much time, because for many it is not the process itself that is important, but the enjoyment of the results. And here we are faced with a problem that is typical for any option - weed control. One solution is to create gravel beds- a combination of flower plants and colorful around them. Such a solution simply does not give weeds any chance to spoil the flower bed, and allows us to expressively decorate the selected area at our discretion. We can give the flower bed any shape and color, it all depends on our imagination and available.

How to make a gravel bed

Now, at the end of April, when the land is already available for cultivation, and the weeds are just thinking of climbing out, it's time to start breaking up the flower bed and we will do it using modern technologies, which are based on a comprehensive solution consisting of garden geotextiles and a special membrane to protect against Plantex weeds. The complex solution includes 2 types of geotextile mulching fabric, special devices for its fixing, containers for local planting of flowers. Decorating gravel and crushed stone of various fractions and colors.

Plantex set for arranging gravel beds. Plantex Bio-Pins - Biodegradable Pin Pins, Plantex Premium Weedmax - Weed Control Membrane and Gravel Mulch Base.

First of all, we need to prepare the chosen place - remove the sod along with the weeds growing in it and give the desired shape to the flower bed by building a flower bed fence with a margin in height, which is determined by the height of the landing containers and the thickness of future gravel layers.

Then lay the first layer of geotextile mulching fabric, which will prevent the unplanned growth of the remaining weeds and their seeds without the use of aggressive chemicals.

The geotextile sheet is cut taking into account the required area and shape of the flower bed and overlapped so as to form a continuous cover. Between themselves, the parts of the canvas are fixed with special needle clamps, which completely decompose after 6 months.

Holes of the required size are cut out in a continuous cover of the mulching canvas and recesses are dug for soft planting containers. It is in them that plants are planted, for which they must be filled with soil.

After that, you can start backfilling the first layer of gravel, the main function of which is drainage and drainage of rainwater. The thickness of the first layer of gravel is about 2/3 of the height of the fence.

The next step is laying the second layer of garden geotextile, which acts as a separator between the gravel filter on the bottom and the decorative gravel layer on top.

The final backfilling of the decorative gravel layer is in progress. The main task is to mask the top layer of geotextile, completely hiding it from view and form the desired pattern of the composition. To do this, it is worth using gravel of various colors and sizes of fractions.

	1. Removing a layer of turf, build a flower bed fence.
	2. The cutting and laying of the mulching fabric is carried out, taking into account the overlap of the edges of at least 10 cm.
	3. Cutting the mulching fabric is done with a sharp knife.
	4. The geotextile sheet is evenly fixed along the overlap strip with special needle clamps.
	5. Metal clamps are used to fasten the canvas to the fence.
	6. In the case of adjoining the borders of the flower bed directly to the wall of the house, a step is created from crushed stone to drain rainwater.
	7. Having decided on the location of the plants, holes are prepared for planting containers.
	8. Holes are cut out in the canvas to fit the size of the containers and recesses are dug.
	9. A soft planting container will protect plant roots from pests and will allow you to separate the planting area from the gravel layer.
	10. In the process of planting a plant, the container is filled with soil.
	11. The space free from landings is covered with the first layer of gravel.
	12. Before backfilling, it is advisable to wash the gravel in order to prevent weed seeds from getting into the flower bed.
	13. A second layer of canvas is laid on the gravel, separating the lower gravel filter from the upper decorative one.
	14. Carefully, in order not to damage the planted plants, a decorative layer of gravel is backfilled. The pattern and composition of the flower bed is being formed.
	15. The volume of decorative gravel is determined locally depending on the size of the fractions.