Previously, vacationers and owners private houses everything for their possessions treated, cleaning of territory, broken down flower beds and installation arbours. Now, many of them seriously carried away landscaping, And to use the wide variety of tools. To create original landscape on its site is now increasingly used gabions. Consider what it is and how to use it properly.
What is the gabion and its device
Translated from the Italian gabbione it means - "large cell". This volumetric mesh designs of solid wire, fills stones or other solid objects and strong on-site. gabions were first used during the Napoleonic campaigns for the protection of the guns of the enemy, and the fragments were a basket of vines, tightly packed earth. Used such designs today with the equipment of temporary positions and checkpoints. They are also in demand for the riverbanks, road verges and in the construction of buildings. Recently, the gabions are widely used in the creation of landscape design.
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What is the popularity of such gabions and how to use the landscape designers? It is a simple structure consisting of a thick galvanized wire and stones. Installation is quite easy and allows you to safely consolidate land slope. When the gabion can be used to create alpine hills, Flower beds, small waterfalls or artificial mini pond. Design used in the construction stairways, fences and ornamental mazes.
Gabions are most often rectangular shape with a hexagonal mesh. The design is divided into several sections with wire baffles which are set at intervals of 1 m. However gabions can be of very different shape and size. All depends on the site owner desires.
filler gabions
Some believe that it is enough to take the grid structure and covered them any stones. But this is not the case. The filler designers suggest using quarry or quarry-stone. As a rule, are used for backfill:
- natural quartz;
- sandstone;
- light granite;
- slate;
- porphyry.
You can also use pebbles, "glass" and river stones. However, it should be noted that the filler should be in size by 30-40% over the largest gabion cell. Gabions can be a great part of the landscape at their summer cottage and significantly strengthen its borders. This is a cheap and practical solution than the erection of capital constructions of stone, brick and concrete.
