It may be hard to understand that you can install a passive walkway using jumbo flag in about 1/3 the time it would take to install a paving stone walkway of the same size. The reasons are simple with a paving stone walkway you have to:
· strip the topsoil and excavate down 8” below final paver height
· remove fill off site
· compact and install a granular base
· install a fine granular leveling base
· install and cut the pavers to suit
· compact the pavers
· sweep in a polymeric jointing sand
As with a jumbo flag walkway you only have to do the following:
· strip off the topsoil to a depth of 3”
· start installing the jumbo flag pieces and spud bar them into final position
· sweep the topsoil fill from excavation into the joints of the stones
There are a variety of plant material options for infilling the gaps between the stones such as simply adding turf between the cracks flush with the top of the flagstones so a lawn mower can travel overtop effortlessly. Another option is the addition of Creeping Thyme between the stones. Creeping Thyme grows about two to four inches high and can spread up to two or more feet in width. The leaves are very small, but dense and cover the low growing plants. Foliage color varies in shades of light to dark green and the variety 'Woolly' thyme has attractive grayish foliage.
The leaf color of the other varieties seems to vary with flower color, the lighter flowering varieties have lighter foliages. Flower colors range in shades of lavender, red, rose, or white. They flower in the late spring and early summer. The plants flower so prolifically; you can hardly see the evergreen leaves below. Creeping thyme is an easy plant to maintain, as it does not tend to take-over and can easily be confined to a specific area.
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