turfstone

Turfstone with grass

Some of my gar­den shots have had some per­fo­rated con­crete pavers shown in them. In case you’re won­der­ing what it is, it’s called Turf­s­tone, and is one of sev­eral prod­ucts out there that are designed to allow you to have a lawn that you can drive onto.

The basic idea is that you inter­plant the lit­tle holes with grass, and the con­crete blocks keep vehi­cles from cut­ting ruts into the lawn. You of course could also fill the holes with other kinds of plants.

If you don’t want to have to water your dri­ve­way, or if you want a sturdy but porous mate­r­ial to use to cover a French drain–which is what we wanted–you could fill the holes with mate­r­ial like crushed rock or peb­bles, as we’ve done here. Using a con­trast­ing mate­r­ial brings out the inter­est­ing grid pattern.

Turfstone with pebbles

The mate­r­ial is some­what spe­cial­ized, so you local home store prob­a­bly won’t have it in stock, though they may be able to order it for you. Fail­ing that, the blocks seem to have a pretty wide dis­tri­b­u­tion so that a land­scape mate­ri­als firm could prob­a­bly find it for you.

July 21 2008 | Categories: landscape design • my garden | Tags: • | 7 Comments »