A square is sacred geometry. The paver is square: therefore, the paver becomes part of sacred geometry in landscape design.
When approaching Garden decorating, I look for what’s sacred to plant and place. The house entrances are north-south. The pathways into the backyard are linear north-south. The east path is slightly higher than the west path. Only trees and bushes grow there. The grass from sod is long gone due to the shade the trees produce. The west side is also where the a/c condenser unit is, the vent from the dryer leads out to the west, the garbage bins lay there too. The west garbage area is secluded from the street but it’s a visual sore spot. It’s also a very wet lane. It must be slightly lower than the east side. My neighbor’s higher east side feeds into my lower side.
The pavers, square 12 x 12′, are going to be laid on the wet west side. Not in single line but in path clusters. I’m going to space them apart for ground cover plants to grow inbetween. In south Florida, you can put down the black weed cloth to keep plants from coming up between the cracks but it’s nearly impossible without heavy regular interference to keep those plants out. So to keep with what nature is doing, I’m going to let them grow, thus anchoring the pavers better for future wet times.
Comparing pavers to either other flagstones or mulch or gravel or rounded stone, I chose the white pavers. They were on sale for 88ยข per paver: I bought 100. The guys at Lowe’s were cracking their jokes around me when I went to pick up 50 out of the 100. I could have loaded up my car more but a second trip made me feel that I wasn’t abusing my car with excessive weight. Had I let Lowe’s drop them off, the sale price would have been more than cancelled. So I’m looking for pavers I can do myself. I called Lowe’s the night before and when I ordered them, made sure I could pick them up in more than one trip.
The guys loading it on my car asked that next time to have the ticket read: pick up in parts. What they and I didn’t know was how much weight of concrete my car could haul per trip. My car does 50 pavers well. More than that I didn’t try and didn’t feel comfortable trying.
I chose white because I have a heavy green presence in my yard. Eventually, the white will gray and also stain green when leaves decay on it. Natural stains on stones turn the man-made concrete back to nature.