Instead of something like this, below.
Gravel ranges $20-$48/ton & doesn't require skilled labor. .
At a girlfriend's for dinner I broke a personal rule, "No Landscape Designing, Unless Asked. " She told me the story of several contractor bids to repair her old, broken concrete patio. Each bid into the thousands of dollars. I asked her, "What do you think of gravel?"
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Yes, dahlings, less than $300 later she had a gravel terrace. She asked me, "Why didn't any of the contractors tell me about gravel?" She loves the terrace & so do I. We've had many dinners, brunches & glasses of wine on her gravel terrace.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Top pic from Smithsonian Horticulture Archive, Bottom pic from the movie, It's Complicated. No time to poke around for my girlfriend's gravel terrace at the moment. Another post!
HAHA. Totally agree. Not to mention the better drainage with gravel and avoiding big pools of water which has been problematic of late.
ReplyDeletePlus, if you *had* to have a brick patio later, wouldn't the gravel act as a good base? Maybe?
great example - so true, so true.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Tara!
I'm an all gravel all the time fan.
ReplyDeleteGreat illustration of why Designers pay for themselves!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSandra Jonas
I just visited a tiny "done" front yard on "High Point" in Morningside" beautiful gravel. they probably only needed a few wheelbarrow loads.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you suggest to keep the weeds out of the gravel? Do you put weed block down first (I hate weed block), or just pull them out as they pop up?
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