Our garden has a lawn that slopes upwards fairly steeply to some steps up to a higher level. So it needs a path to stop the walkway ending up as mud. When we put it in we put some big stones that we’d found in the garden down loosely, and the grass grew around them. The end result was pretty good really, a hard path but it looked mostly grassy.
Now, I’ve just replaced the lawn because it was really crappy and full of weeds, but I still have to do something with the path. I was thinking of digging up all the stones and replacing them, and planting some kind of plants in between. So:
1) What plants can be walked upon? Original idea was chamomile, cos it makes a nice smell apparently
2) Is there any kind of rigid weed barrier that would sit vertically in the soil and stop the plants spreading into the lawn? Some kind of generic plastic would work I suppose, or if we could maybe find some kind of troughing, bury it and cut holes in the bottom to let the water in (or out, for most of the year!)