Gardens look very beautiful and neat when you pave a clear pathway in it leading to either in side your home, or towards the flowerbed, fountain, or sitting area or any interesting spot in your garden, paths and pathways always make it look very neat and give a spectacular view to any garden no matter what its size. You can even plan for pathways in small gardens to make it appear bigger and better or at least much better than a just open pathless garden. Look at the examples listed below to have an idea about the various pathways that you can design in your garden.

Mosaic Pathway 

Granite slabs and marbles mixture can also make a beautiful pathway and this is a lovely example of it. You can simply embed the marble stones around the large stones to fill the gaps and make the pathway look beautiful.

Look at this amazing and colorful garden path, if you’ve got an artist’s soul then go for it!

If you are looking from far you could think it’s a Persian rug outside and could wonder why someone would do that, but  look at that carpet pebble mosaic , it looks amazing!

Red Brick And Wood Pathway

This is a red brick pathway that is neatly laid out in a curved pathway in two rows in each section that is divided with a wooden bar, this brick pathway is one of the cost effective pathways that can be used in the gardens and is a thin brick that is used to make it look beautiful.

Here is a great DIY idea if you are interested to make brick pathway yourself

I love this rustic little pathway made from recycled bricks

Broken Stone Pathway

Look at this broken stone pathway where the path is laid with stone tiles that are broken and are of various shapes and sizes, this gives a rough look to the garden pathway and is one of the sturdy path too.

Garden Pathway With Grass Between Pavers

You can also make use of large cement slabs or tiles laid neatly along the pathway with gaps in between them where green grass carpet fills the space and makes it look even more natural and beautiful.

If you are living in a humid climate you can plant moss between pavers

Woodland Inspired garden path

This is a wood chip path where the path is cleverly paved and is laid out gently with just the wood chips  and newspapers which is completely natural material and will match everything growing in my garden just beautifully  !

Wood chip gives a natural look to the garden and makes it look beautiful and give pleasant feel to the foot when one walks on bare foot.The wood chips  break down  with time and turn into humus in the pathways. Then all you need to do is add some more of course

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Stepping Stones Garden Path

This is a combination of pebbles and tiles that make up a neat pathway in the garden , you can simply lay  the tiles with gaps in between each other and the space can be filled with small pebbles and sand to make it look natural.You can even create unique  DIY concrete stepping stones, just like here

A Gravel Garden Path

Make use of small marble stones to make your garden pathway and you can just lay them along the way and make your graveled path look mildly colorful and pretty as these smooth stones in light natural colors adorn the path.

You can choose different types and sizes of gravels , depends on your location and taste!

Green Pathway

How about this natural green grass carpeted pathway that is neatly mow and well maintained along with stoned laid on both the sides, this makes it look lush green and beautiful.

Artificial grass will work too!

Which is your favorite type of  garden pathway and which  would you try in your garden?