@bricksmasherqfCvX0El Call me old fashioned but I would prefer crazy paving to decking especially if you can leave gaps for creeping thymes etc. Most decking has a limited life span and can be slippery. That is what gardening is about gathering information before you commit to anything. You probably think I am crazy but never mind. Has anyone seen crazy paving at Chelsea? Perhaps it could be a new trend, it could be a great way to recycle.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Crazy paving and conifers @GardenerSuze My Dad started creating a patio with crazy paving. I was a tiny baby when they moved in. He was still doing it when I moved out... He eventually got someone in to lay ordinary paving.
It's certainly worth thinking about though. Good quality decking [and I stress the good quality bit] is fine, as long as it's a south facing, sunny site. It gets very slippery in wet weather and in winter. I loved mine when I had it though.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We lived in a bungalow 30 years ago, OH created a 2 tier crazy paved patio out of a pile of old slabs that were free. It took a year to do and it was hard work, cost, just some bags of cement. We no longer live there but the patio still looks good.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I'm not against crazy paving, it would be easier and cheaper to leave it
But ours is like the rest of the hiuse when we bought it, run down and not really looked after. It has dips in it, a drain access with 2 large paving slabs covering it.
Personally I'd like a new patio, and to extend it onto the grass abit more but my fiancee would rather composit decking so we will get that.
Spent sometime planting some herbs in the planters today, only one more to fill up now and to decide what to put into it
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Has anyone seen crazy paving at Chelsea? Perhaps it could be a new trend, it could be a great way to recycle.
My Dad started creating a patio with crazy paving. I was a tiny baby when they moved in. He was still doing it when I moved out...
He eventually got someone in to lay ordinary paving.
It's certainly worth thinking about though. Good quality decking [and I stress the good quality bit] is fine, as long as it's a south facing, sunny site. It gets very slippery in wet weather and in winter. I loved mine when I had it though.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
But ours is like the rest of the hiuse when we bought it, run down and not really looked after. It has dips in it, a drain access with 2 large paving slabs covering it.
Personally I'd like a new patio, and to extend it onto the grass abit more but my fiancee would rather composit decking so we will get that.
Spent sometime planting some herbs in the planters today, only one more to fill up now and to decide what to put into it