Garden walling and the benefits are easily seen with the naked eye. They bring an air of majesty to a garden. They can also provide a certain amount of protection for what you have growing in your garden. It keeps people from walking directly into the garden, and many animals will simply go around if confronted by a wall.
But outside the protective benefits, are the beauty and elegance that garden walling can bring. It evokes a kind of mystery and produces a whole new atmosphere from an open garden. Garden walling is an artistic endeavor that can really add to the look and feel of your garden area. Whether you hire professionals, and choose to do your own work, it can really make a huge difference that all can easily see.
If you decide on garden walling with brick, then you should have some experience in that area. A brick wall should be built by someone who knows what they're doing. These people who do this kind of work go through years of training, and you can't expect to just 'wing' it and come out with a very good result.
Before you start building your wall, you'll have to make some decisions. First one is what material you want to build with, and the second is how high and how thick. The you'll need to dig your ground out and make a place to start with your base. Your largest stones should be placed in the bottom. A lot of construction is common sense, but there are many tricks as well that the inexperienced person wouldn't think about.
I've seen many different types of garden walls, and some are rough edged and uneven, but still look very good. Others are nearly perfect in their matching up of bricks or blocks. For the most part, neatness and a scheme of regularity throughout the wall is what matters most. You can have one that's consistently uneven, if you maintain that theme throughout the whole wall.
When you're garden walling all the way around your garden area, you gain the benefit of having a place where your ground can settle evenly. Whenever the rain softens the ground, it can move and settle against the wall, and be held in a more level position. There's a lot of things to consider before you go and throw up a wall, that wouldn't come to you at first.
The variation and endless options that a wall brings is part of the attraction to them. They can be rustic, they can be modern, almost any type of style that you can imagine. They can be a combination of stone, brick, metal railing, wood, and all sorts of material depending on your idea of what your wall should be.
Yes, garden walling, and the benefits of it, are something to see. It turns an ordinary piece of ground into something much more special. It has a magical effect on the whole area. I always remember driving through the country and seeing the old rock walls and how beautiful they were, as do many other people. And when you add the protection factor for your garden, then you have to ask - 'why not build one'?
