The Brew Cabin

Hello All -

My missus has turned all Rachel de Thame on me, and would like to have gaps between the flags on our soon to be DIY layed new patio (which simply would not be possible without this brilliant site, by the way) big enough to have small plants growing in between. Presumably this has implications for how the flags should be layed, and what will hold them securely in place if they are not pointed or dry filled.

Any thoughts/suggestions/advice would be welcome

Cheers

Alan

It all depends on how these 'gaps' are to be distributed. If we are looking at occasional pockets of thymes and the like, the simplest option is to lay the flags as normal and then get you beloved to indicate where the planting pockets are required. You then dig out any bedding material in those spots and replace it with soil or planting medium.

However, if the plan involves leaving gaps around each and every flag, a bit like having extra-wide joints, then you have to lay each flag as you would a stepping stone, making up an individual bed and then bringing the bedding up the sides by 25mm or so to hold it firmly in place.

Has she revealed her plan in this level of detail, or is it the sort of vague, half-mumbled 'grand idea' that I get from Mrs Taz?

It's the vague half mumbled suggestion, which must shortly thereafter appear in precisely the form glimpsed in her minds eye. Without creating any disruption or costing any money, of course.