Mandala paths without sky high prices
Remember that wonderful urban chic path I showed you, of York stone incised into grass, for meditative walking or just impressing the hell out of your friends? Amazing style, but very expensive. Yesterday I was reminded that at this year's Chelsea Flower Show, a much cheaper and equally stylish version of the mandala path (that's what they are called, by the way) was on show. Here's how you make one:
- Buy lots of good quality rope (see picture) preferably from a yacht chandlers as they have the best range of weights and colours.
- Buy some good fine sand - again shop around your local garden centres and builder's merchants until you find something you really like the look of. At the same time get a piece of thick plastic, tarpaulin or mulch cloth, that you can cut with scissors.
- Lay the rope in a spiral on the ground and when you're happy, dig out a hole in your lawn to the right size but three inches deeper. Cut the plastic until it fits the hole and reaches an inch up the sides (you may have to snip into the edges a bit to get it to lay flat) then pour two inches of sand into the hole on top of it. Now coil the rope into the hole and pour sand over the top and brush it into any gaps and crevices. There you go, instant mandala for about a hundredth of the price of the stone version and you can simply lift it and replace with fresh turf whenever you've had enough of it. Try black rope for a really impressive effect, or two colour rope, or cream rope with blue sand - very nautical.
(photograph by Normanack, used under creative commons attribution licence)
Posted by The Allotment Blogger on Saturday, August 11, 2007
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