As Spring approaches allegedly, it is time to get out into that garden again and start moulding it into the garden of your dreams. A path is a lovely opportunity to make something special out of something essential. During the winter or if you live in the UK the summer when the weather has been particularly inclement, a path can be essential to get from one end of the garden to the other. But paths don’t have to be boring and with a little imagination, you can have some totally unique and inspirational paths that will have everyone talking about them.
The first idea we are going to look at comes from Karen at Wuvie, via Instructables, and is my personal favourite. The full instructions are over on Karen’s site but basically, you ensure your plain stepping stones are clean and dry. Then you purchase some plastic doilies, which are very inexpensive, and attach them to the stones, prior to spray painting them a nice contrasting colour to that of the stone. Once the paint has dried you remove the doilies and are left with a stunning pattern that will be totally unique and individual to your path.
Check grows on you provides another excellent example of a wooden path, where someone that is good with wood and a saw can make a wonderful path using nothing but 3 to 4-inch thick wood slices. I would imagine that this project may be the hardest to create in terms of physical effort, so you might need to take this into consideration, but he finished effect is rather special.
The third path is perhaps a little more natural because we are going to create a path of leaf shapes. The leaves are easily found, perhaps even from your own back garden. The trick here is to find leaves with big veins as when the stones are complete, the veins are effectively what makes the pattern. Full details on this project can be found over at Ready Set Grow.
Our penultimate path idea is from Christina at
Intimate Weddings who says that with nothing more than old
plates, a cake pan some old glass and a few other basic materials
you can produce amazing stepping stones.
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And finally, for today, we have an idea from Tanya at Lovely Greens whose idea is not dissimilar to the one directly above. She, however, uses a cake pan, cement and sea glass. As you can see there are many ideas and twists that you can utilise to make a path in your garden. The only thing I would say is that now you have no excuse for just a plain boring path.
