Pea Stone Patio Border

Able to be flexed or bent into all sorts of shapes.
Pea stone patio border. While metal edgings are often used for lawns they can also be used with patio materials like smaller pavers and loose materials such as pea gravel or bark. We ordered just over 3 5 yards of the smaller stone it was between 5 8 3 4 which was just over 200 you can find yardage calculators online that will help you with this part. Continue working around the patio. The wood border was delivered from lowe s along with the weed block rolls.
The stone yard delivered the pea stone and because the patio is right next to the driveway they were able to back the truck up and dump it right onto the landscape fabric. Begin the edging material installation at one corner of the pea gravel patio. Don t forget an edging material. I recommend getting a truckload of pea gravel delivered to your home rather than dealing with individual bags.
I used concrete pavers for a border to keep the gravel from escaping into the lawn and that single line of blocks cost more than an entire truckload of gravel. The ends make it easy to create curved borders. We ordered the pea gravel from our local stone shop. A pea gravel border is an edging material placed around the perimeter of the gravel patio.
The small stones fill in nearly any shape you design with edging or borders. Pea gravel patio border. A pea gravel path abuts a bed of mulch and bluestone pavers neatly separated by a strip of metal edging. These are the ones i used.
It s lightweight and sturdy yet pliable i e. Photograph by nicole franzen for gardenista. Materials needed to make a pea gravel patio. One cubic yard is more than enough for 100 square feet at 3 inches deep.
Position the level on the gravel to be sure that it is flat and even. Step 5 laying the edging. Position your edging material tightly together to prevent visible gaps. Pea gravel is much cheaper than a similarly sized patio made of pavers.
Pea gravel is easier and more economical to install than other patio materials. Pea gravel is also an affordable option for the installation of a patio can be used in children s play areas can replace sand on beaches and in sand boxes and can even be an alternative to mulch. Pea gravel will have fewer. A pea gravel patio requires fewer tools and materials to create than other types.
Because of its tendency to travel pea gravel must be contained by some type of edging material such as brick stones bender board or metal edging as shown above. Aside from the function it offers a gravel patio border also adds elegance and aesthetic appeal to your patio by defining it. For those who want their patio to curve a steel or aluminum edging will be a wise choice. Paver edging optional this plastic edging holds the pavers in place so they stay in a straight line without shifting.
That made spreading it about a billion times easier than having to load up the wheel barrel and make 50 trips from the driveway to the patio.