What about decomposed granite for the #NewOldBackyard?
I've pointed it out before, but one of the spots that I'd like to tackle first in our #newoldbackyard is t he 'entrance' or traffic path that we use to get from the front to the backyard. I posted about a walkway, bridge and pond setup that I thought might work here on the blog back in July . Recently, I had our landscape contractor come out to talk about some options and how we'd tackle them - and in what order. There's screening material needed (trees), hardscaping and maybe even some retaining walls involved. And that is just to get us to the point of having a setup where we could think about something like a water feature/waterfall (which...I really want.) One of the ideas that came up in my conversations with landscape designer was the idea of decomposed granite walkways. That's a photo of one up top. It came from here . I like the look of paths made out of the stuff and you see it in lots of places both formal and informal. There...