Friday, March 9, 2012

Edging Options for Your Beds

Curious about options when it comes to edging around your garden beds?

With all the choices available, we thought we'd highlight a few:

Stone Edging


Mix and match stone shapes and colors for a natural edge.  Positioned in a winding pattern, a stone edging creates a nice shape for flowering ground covers to gently creep over.



Metal Edging


Metal landscape edging does a good job of keeping mulch in and keeping unwanted plants out.  It is more utilitarian looking than decorative.  It is also important to buy a quality product to ensure edges are not sharp.


Wood Edging

Wood landscape edging is a good choice for very large landscapes.  While it helps keep the mulch in, it doesn't do a good job of preventing unwanted plants from invading.  Since wood is biodegradable, it needs  to be treated to keep it from decomposing or warping.


Masonry Edging

Masonry (brick or concrete) edging looks great and comes in a multitude of styles.


Flagstone Edging


Flagstone and bluestone feature wide, flat faces that lend a romantic Country feeling to a garden. With the irregular shapes, it's a great choice for cottage style gardens.



Whatever you choose, some things to consider are cost, how long it lasts and especially, how will it look with your home and current landscape.







9 comments:

  1. Competitively priced concrete edging services from Brisbane to Byron Bay Garden Kerbing Servicing Byron Bay to Bribie Island, locally owned and operated we are well known for concrete garden edging and carpark kerbing at very competitive rates

    ReplyDelete
  2. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  3. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  4. I am really interested in what you wrote here. This looks absolutely perfect. All these tinny details are give me a lot of knowledge.

    http://www.tuataralandscapes.co.nz/

    ReplyDelete
  5. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Nice blog, keep sharing such posts. Dr. Dan’s Landscaping & Architectural Design has earned an excellent reputation in Southside Hampton Roads with a devotion and commitment unmatched by other area landscape designers. Offering an extensive list of exterior design services, we use the highest quality products and offer the best professional design and installation services.
    concrete landscaping Virginia Beach

    ReplyDelete
  7. Wow! What a gardening idea! Much appreciable and stunning. The edging option for beds you described and inserted (lovely photos) really marveled me so much. All the option including stone edging, metal edging, wood, masonry and flagstone edging stated were surely a inspiring read and experience. The stone and masonry edging charmed me so much. For a fabulous gardening and landscaping there are so many landscaping companies out there that can contribute much to bring a significance beauties and style in your backyard and front yard. If you guys live in Folsom, surely Folsom landscaping pros with be the best one with their premier support.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Thank you for the great post. Do you know the brand "SweetNight"? A mattress in a box online store. I want to buy a mattress from them recently.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Simply it was an extra-ordinary tour to your beautiful garden. The edging ideas and tips you focused in this post will surely help the home garden lovers. Each process like stone edging, wood and masonry, metal and flagstone edging details you enlightened before us were super useful. I like the way you delivered all the ways. Anyway, for installing a stone pathway landscapingetobicokeca can be the one stop place for the garden addict in the GTA.

    ReplyDelete