How to Incorporate Gabion Stones Into Your Garden Space
If you’re looking for innovative design features to incorporate into your garden, then gabion stones could be the versatile material that you need to transform your garden. Traditionally used as a form of erosion control, gabion stones can also be used in landscaping and as decorative features.
As natural stone products, they make for effective visual features in your garden and can be incorporated into your outdoor space in a variety of ways. We’ll take a look at some of these in this blog, offering inspiration on how you could incorporate them into your own garden.
What Are Gabion Stones?
Gabion stones are a type of stone product whereby large stones are used to fill wire baskets, which can then be used in landscaping projects. A variety of natural stone can be used for gabion stones, including:
● Limestone
● Granite
● Basalt
● Sandstone
● Quartzite
● Dolomite
Each of these stones feature different colours and textures, offering a variety of options for how you want the finish of our gabion stones to look in your garden.
As for the properties of gabion stones, they are praised for their strength, durability and natural drainage properties. All of these combined make them ideal for a range of uses.
Ideas for Your Garden
Raised Flower Beds
Gabion stones are ideal for creating raised beds to grow flowers, especially in gardens that don’t have a lot of space and/or are prone to flooding. Not only are gabion stone raised beds easy to make, but they are visually attractive, blending in seamlessly with the rest of your garden.
They also offer excellent drainage, which is vital for plant health, allowing you to create thriving flower beds.
Retaining Walls
If you live in a hilly area, as many areas of Scotland are, then you might have a sloping garden that you’d prefer to split into separate levels. A great solution is to incorporate retaining walls into your garden.
Retaining walls let you turn sloping ground into level areas, subsequently managing soil erosion and creating a decorative feature in your garden. They’re also a great way of separating the paved and lawn areas of your garden, adding variations in depth, dimension, texture and purpose.
Using gabion stones offers an aesthetically pleasing, low maintenance option when creating a retaining wall in your garden.
Water Features
Stone features make for tranquil areas in the garden that are not only visually appealing, but offer practical benefits, also. Adding water to the mix makes for a truly peaceful haven; the sound of water cascading down stones creates a soothing, ambient space in your garden.
Gabion stones are perfect for creating water features, as they can easily be incorporated with a water pump to create an effective, natural-looking fountain in your garden.
Get in Touch
If you live in Scotland and are looking to source some gabion stones for your next garden project, then we’ve got you covered here at William Thompson and Son. We’re proud to offer a range of stone products from our family-run business in Dumbarton, including gabion stones.
To enquire about our products and discuss your needs with us, then don’t hesitate to get in touch with us today.
