Let your plants bolt for compost heap

What does ‘bolting’ mean? Doug, Twickenham DAVID: When speaking of veggies, it means flowering and setting seed. It usually happens when plants are under stress like during a hot, dry spell. It causes plants to toughen and lose flavour, so chuck them on the compost. of an ancient garden where nature has broken through in places.

However, using these clean, modern paving stones gave it a different twist, allowing it to sit somewhere between the rustic and the modern.

Mind-your-own-business is great for this sort of effect, but there are lots of other mat-forming groundcover plants such as Scotch Moss (Sagina subulata ‘Aurea’) or Smooth Rupturewort (Herniaria glabra) that are fantastic as well.

Most of these types of plants need no maintenance as such, but they can spread if not contained.

The other option is to use grass, and obviously you will just need to mow over it along with your lawn.

To go for a more modern style you could use these same paving stones or another from Bradstone’s Contemporary Range such as Manzano or Panache Ground, and then use a standard checkerboard or any pattern with clean straight lines.

Another way is to create paths that use offset angles and uneven edges for a more abstract style that maintains a modern edge. For a truly rustic feel for your path or patio, you can go with traditional paving slabs, but use