A meandering pathway through a garden is an inviting way to enjoy the beauty of delightful plantings and wildlife.
For inexpensive and easy-to-maintain garden walkways use gravel or mulch. Mulch works well in a natural informal setting. Gravel is often used in formal gardens.
For more pathway pizzazz:
Inset concrete with Sedona flagstone and/or tiny black pebbles.
Purchase a plastic mold and transform your concrete walkway into an Old World cobblestone path.
Interplant flagstone with blue star creeper and edge it with thyme.
Use colorful stones found on the beach, combine them in a variety of patterns, then set them in mortar.
Place tile pieces in a mix of sizes, textures, designs and shapes within a pattern of bricks or create a mosaic with tile pieces and skip the brick.
Use Scotch and Irish moss to give a smooth, polished appearance around paving.
Edge a gravel path with larger rocks for definition.
Line a winding flagstone path with brightly colored flowers like marigolds, ranunculus and burgundy Arctotis.
Set a path of flagstone stepping-stones over a bed of rocks.
Use old railroad ties to make a stepped path down a hillside.
Give a garden an English country look by allowing creeping perennials — like Nemesia caerulea, Armeria maritime, Alyssum saxatile and Stachys byzantina — to grow unchecked in the gaps between flagstone pavers.
