LOOSE GRAVEL - How to Choose & Use 

Just lay some gravel? Who'd have thought so many decisions! Glad I know this now.

Another great video 😀 I feel like I’m attending a high end horticultural and design course just by watching your videos Bunny, thank you!

I love the look of gravel especially combined, as you have done in some areas Bunny, within a geometric paving design. I think it also serves as a useful and attractive natural burglar deterrent, abutting the main external walls of a house (all-round) ~ as a metre wide path. It's so complimentary to brick/stone walls and makes an alerting crunching sound if any 'ne'er-do-wells' are looking through the window and liking the look of auntie May's Ming vase!

God she’s good. And each photo is luscious.

I also love how easily gravel can be moved or added to. Our cement patio wasn’t large enough, so I laid a 3ft wide area of gravel on one side of the patio to place buffet tables. I also planted two hornbeams in that gravel - something you couldn’t do in another surface without significant planning.

Thank you I was afraid of using gravel, but I think I’m going to use it for my pathways in my garden

Good video, thank you, Bunny. I always wondered how to take care of gravel and thought it is mighty difficult.

Our local contractor removed all the top soil, down to the subsoil, then laid Teram: then he put the rough chunks of limestone (don't do that!) with small limestone gravel on top. For 20 years it's all worked like a cake mix. Unlike granite, limestone wears down with rain and being trampled, it also encourages weeds to seed. The whole lot has sunk too.

Thank you Bunny! I have gravel. I love gravel. Oh but the weeds.. :(

Brilliant as always!!! I like the term "gentlemen's gravel" sounds much more proper ,we call it "pea gravel"😒 . I have been adding pea... no ..gentlemen's 😉 gravel everywhere the past couple of years, totally transforming and sooo low maintenance!!!

I came across this video searching how to keep gravel weed-free! As I was deciding whether to use it between my steppingstone slabs. This is the best video on gravel out there!! I am now hooked on your channel and look forward to your posts. Thank you very much .

Love love gravel, its all a matter of taste and preference isn't it? Some likes the modern clean look, some likes the farm/country look, give me the peace and relaxing look of the country any day! Great video!!!!

Very helpful, thank you 🙏🏼

Beautiful surface and thanks for all the information.

I love listening & watching you talk about your garden amid its beauty, and this subject is fantastic. My husband mined limestone here in the states and he always objected to the price of gravel (relatively speaking)…so it was a special gift when he would get some for me. Please keep the videos coming, they are such a treat!

A really comprehensive appraisal of using gravel in the domestic garden, Bunny. I have used 10mm gravel on the floor of my greenhouse. This is set into the plastic grid system. Pots look so handsome beneath the staging.

Thank you for another fantastic video - you’re so informative and knowledgeable… watch this channel grow 🌱

Absolutely love your videos, thanks for all you do! Adore gravel and having relocated to a much smaller property in New England in US have completely eliminated all lawn. Gravel and beds of plants, could not be happier. Use native pea stone, rather a gray color works best here, whereas you can enjoy more warmer tones of beiges and browns.

We just redone our parking space with beautiful gravel unfortunately our neighbour's cats love it too and are using it as their litter!

The gravel looks lovely. Unfortunately, it is hot in Texas and the hot surface is cruel for dogs. Gravel, stone, concrete, all retain heat, which is why cities are hotter than the country. Then too,, cties don't have enough trees, which are nature's air conditioning.

I have grass growing in the gravel on the drive Bunny what should I do. Spray ( or something) & Top it up with gravel or more?

thanks

Hello there...I'm such a huge fan of Bunny. I remember a video in which she described the construction of some pathways in a garden somewhere in Asia - Japan, perhaps?? Bunny showed us how she created a similar pathway outside her greenhouse or shed. I believe it was a mixture of gravel, mud and mortar?? I can't seem to find this video - does anyone remember the title of that video - or the name of the paving technique? Cheers from the States 😊

Is it do-able to lay gravel in a very large area yourself, or is this something you would recommend for the pros?

I have an old deteriorating flagstone patio. Would it be possible to lay gravel directly on top of this or do we need to take it up before laying gravel?

Very informative on using gravel! However, I live in California and we put down decomposed granite (DG) pathways and a gathering area. Is this used in the UK? Any advice on using DG? Thanks!

Is walking with high heels not just a struggle just as is, period?

Unless I misunderstood , you did not mention anything about weeds , I have a gravel stone terrace and every year I am plagued by weeds what do you do about this problem ?

Have you done a video on how to keep it weed and grass free?

Hi Bunny, thank you for the video. I got slightly confused by the layers. We are doing our gravel drives and landscaping at the moment. The drives have Terram and then “scalpings” which have been compressed (I believe this is equivalent to MOT Type 2). My contractor says this therefore doesn’t need another base and that anything else would cause the gravel to mix with whatever is underneath it. So is that correct and should we just put 50mm of 20mm angular gravel on top? The house is quarried cotswold stone - is there a colour or type of gravel you think works best? Btw for the paths, i we are going to go for a self binding substance like the Breedon gravel i think it was that you recommended in a video last year.

A weed mebrane is not needed?