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What could I do with my cobbles?

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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    At the moment I use cobbles for edging a border which is about 2 inches higher than the driveway. Started using them when the existing retaining gravel board began to rot and crumble. Looks much nicer.

    Before that I've used them in (reasonably) artistic piles as fillers around groups of pots of different shapes and sizes. Makes a group of mismatched pots into a cohesive feature in the corner of a patio.

    You could use them as the base to a shallow pool / bird bath type feature.

    I have seen some lovely patterns of cobbles set into concrete or even into lawn. This garden is just up the road from me

    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @K67. Impressive, but I'd probably still their my toe😤
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @Topbird. I tried using them as edging but had to lift them up often/ regularly   / constantly to weed. How on earth do they manage that?
    I abandoned the project and collected them up
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • If there are small children involved paint them lurid colours and play games hiding and finding them on the garden.

    Depending on the size and shape you could also stack them into a sort of beehive shape (like a clochán but filled in) as an insect hotel.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    No children. I like the clochàn idea but they're all smooth and rounded so they'd slide off. They look like river cobbles to me. I was given them years ago so I'm not sure.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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