TRUE GRIT

SUMMER IS A TIME TO LET NATURE DO THE WORK. A GRAVEL PATCH OR PATH NEEDS LITTLE EFFORT AND THRIVES COME RAIN OR SHINE

Words: JESSICA STOKES

There’s a metal bench in a corner of my garden, where I sit at sunset, drink in hand. The heady scent of the thyme and lavender I planted is more intense in the dusk. Pollinators flit around me and under my feet is gravel. It was an easy spot to create – I simply pulled the gravel away in places and dug small planting holes in the soil beneath for the herbs, back filling them with the soil, and pushing the gravel around the plants to protect their crowns. This tiny and inexpensive act has brought me no end of pleasure, and the bees are overjoyed, too. When it’s hot, and recent summers have been really hot, there’s a great need for drought-tolerant planting, and this is where gravel gardens can excel.…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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