New Garden Path!

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For over twenty years, I traversed this narrow dirt path from my patio to the garden gate, often multiple times a day. I laid down some rocks, but, inevitably, the rocks sunk down into the dirt, and the path, once again, reverted to a dirt path.

Every few years, I'd lift the rocks back up and the cycle would repeat itself. Here are a couple of "before" shots:

I finally hired a mason and told him what I wanted. I am thrilled with the results:

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Jilly

last year

Carrie, wow, that looks fantastic! What a transformation! I so love the variations in colors and materials.

I saw a house the other day that reminded me of yours … is your guest room done?

Thanks for sharing! You accomplished something I’ve never seen here before — Patricia saying she loves something rather than hating it.

(Just teasing, Pat!) 😄

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Such a fun path I love it.
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Carrie B
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last year
Thank you, @Patricia Colwell Consulting - that means a lot, coming from you!

@Jilly - my old friend! Nothing is ever complete - you know that! :-) For now, though, I'm focusing on other things. Maybe this winter, I'll get back to thinking about the guest room.

I asked the mason to do a combination of brick & stone - to tie in the brick patio (and the brick facade of my home, and... this is Philadelphia, after all...) with the more natural area of this part of the garden. I think he did a fabulous job!
Jilly
last year
Absolute perfection!

Your guest room at last glance looked wonderful … anything more is just icing on the cake. :)

I miss Philly. I swear one of these days I’ll rent that room!
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Carrie B
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last year
One additional thing about the path: right when you enter, at the gate, and against the wall is where I place bags of mulch and potting mix - I asked the mason to make the path wider there. When I have bags of mulch there, it does make the path narrower, but you saw what I dealt with for over twenty years...
Carrie B
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last year
For those of you following here: now that the path is in, the cinderblock wall and the wood fence look too yellow.

The obvious color choice, I think, is to try to match the grey of the concrete in the path, but grey to me always looks dingy, dull and depressing.

So, I'm thinking maybe the color of the lighter rocks - sort of a tan. Maybe a shade or two lighter. What do you think?
nickel_kg
last year
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Not sure about color, just wanted to complement your awesome path! I've never seen rocks and bricks together like that. What an eye your stonemason has! It works so well!
cyn427 (z. 7, N. VA)
last year
That looks wonderful! Thanks for the inspiration-I need to hire someone to redo a stone path DH laid down. sigh.
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HALLETT & Co.
last year
It is amazing what we will put up with because we are used to it. Your new path looks great
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Olychick
last year
It is completely charming! Unless your fence and wall are due to be painted, I think the color looks fine. I suspect when the light background of the walkway gets dirty, a little algae grows, etc. it won't be such a contrast with the fence (and it's not an extreme contrast at all).
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