Landscape Design: 5 Uses for Aggregates

Making your garden look both tidy and inviting isn’t as difficult as you might think. While there are some landscaping design techniques that can take a lot of effort and skill, using decorative aggregates to add a little colour and texture couldn’t be easier.

If you’re already happy with large portions of your garden landscape but want to freshen things up or create something unique, this month at Aggregate Express we’ve got five ideas to inspire you. You can choose almost any aggregates for the following work interchangeably depending on your preference for colour and stone size, but these are our recommendations.

Don’t forget, you can get all these products the same or next day when you order aggregates online through us.

Weave a Cotswold gravel path through the garden

If you’ve got a garden long enough, why not snake a pathway through your oasis? Cotswold gravel is ideal for adding a light, textured walkway, allowing you to appreciate more of your garden without getting muddy shoes. 

You will, of course, have to plot out where you want your path to go first. This could be directed towards a shed or gate at the end of the garden or it could follow the edge of your space to loop back towards the house again.

Order a Cotswold gravel delivery in Watford, Milton Keynes and Hertfordshire by the tonne today.

Create a brighter border with 10mm shingle stone

Greenery is always excellent to have, but if you want to break up the colours of your garden and add some new texture as well, then you could choose to border the edge of your lawn or your garden as a whole. Use a small, 10mm shingle stone – offering a nice variety of colours in the mixed stones – for a fine layer, but don’t forget to put down a weed-resistant membrane first.

Choose between a bulk bag delivery or loose load delivery of 10mm shingle stone and order today.

Fill a soakaway with 20mm shingle for a tidy finish

Is your garden prone to flooding and waterlogging when it rains? Then you’ve probably been advised to install a soakaway as part of your landscaping upgrades. While this isn’t the kind of easy task we described at the top of this piece, finding an aggregate to backfill and top it with is. 20mm shingle is the ideal size for keeping the soakaway system in place underground, but it offers enough drainage through the stone to create an efficient run-off space that will help protect the rest of your garden and your home.

Backfill and top your soakaway — order 20mm shingle online today in a bulk bag or loose load.

Utilise shingle for a low-maintenance garden

Maybe you’re the type of person who lives a busy life and doesn’t have a lot of free time to tend to a blossoming garden, but you still want a space that looks attractive and offers up a space for entertaining guests. In that case, you could always switch the ratio of lawn to stone, reserving some space for planting and paving, but utilising shingle as the dominant surfacing material. It’s easy to maintain, allows for drainage and keeps your garden looking smart.

Suppress weeds with a ballast flowerbed

Keeping your flowerbeds free of pesky weeds can be tricky, meaning you have to spend lots of time plucking them out of the ground. But what if you could eliminate that frustration with the addition of an attractive ballast bedding? 

Simply take out a shallow layer of soil, lay down a weed-resistant membrane that still allows water to drain through and top with loose ballast that you can spread around your plants and flowers. If you have delicate flowers that come and go each season, you might want to cut space out for them, which does still allow for some weeds to crop up, but the space you’ll have to de-weed will be drastically reduced.

Order ballast for your flowerbeds today and forget all about getting bogged down in weeds.

Wherever you are in Watford, Milton Keynes and Hertfordshire, get your aggregates the express way by ordering online. There are no hidden costs and we’ll deliver directly to you the same day or the next day, meaning you can complete your garden projects in next to no time. If you need any more information on our range of aggregates, just give our friendly team a call.