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How to Use Garden Stones to Create a Low-Maintenance Landscape
If you're looking to spend less time on garden upkeep and more time enjoying your outdoor space, using decorative aggregates is one of the easiest ways to achieve a low-maintenance landscape. These versatile, decorative materials add texture, colour, and structure to your garden, all while helping to reduce weeding, watering, and overall maintenance.
Replace Traditional Lawns with Stone Areas
Lawns require frequent mowing, edging, feeding, and watering, especially in warmer months. Replacing parts of your lawn with decorative garden stones is a smart alternative that eliminates much of that maintenance.
Use gravel, pebbles, or chippings to create stone-covered areas that can double as seating spaces, pathways, or decorative ground cover around plant beds. They offer excellent drainage and won’t need the same upkeep as grass.
Use Stones as Weed-Suppressing Mulch
Garden stones are a long-lasting alternative to organic mulches. When spread over a weed membrane, stones such as slate chippings, pea gravel, or flint help prevent weed growth while also regulating soil temperature and reducing evaporation.
Unlike bark mulch, which needs to be replenished annually, stone mulch is permanent and looks great all year round. It’s especially effective around shrubs, trees, and perennial beds.
Create Easy-Care Pathways and Seating Areas
Laying a gravel or stone path through your garden not only defines walking areas but also adds texture and contrast. Choose aggregates like Cotswold Chippings, Moonstone Gravel, or Golden Flint for a decorative, stable surface.
Paths made from garden stones are permeable, which helps with drainage and prevents puddling. They’re also easy to maintain, just rake or top up occasionally to keep them level and tidy
Design a Rock Garden or Stone Feature
For a truly low-maintenance focal point, build a rock garden using Scottish Cobbles, Celtic gabion stone, or slate paddle stones. Combine them with drought-tolerant plants such as succulents or alpines to create a space that needs little water or care.
Stone features like dry riverbeds, decorative borders, or even gabion walls can give your garden structure and style without adding ongoing upkeep.
Edge Beds and Borders with Decorative Stones
Define your flower beds and pathways with edging made from garden stones. This creates clean lines and helps prevent lawn or mulch from spilling into unwanted areas. It also reduces the need for constant tidying.
Shop Garden Stones at Mainland Aggregates
Creating a beautiful garden doesn’t have to mean constant work. At Mainland Aggregates, we offer a wide range of garden stones in different colours, shapes, and sizes to suit every landscaping need.
Shop with us today discover how easy it is to build a low-maintenance garden that still looks fantastic all year round.