1. Brick Landscape Edging
Brick edging is one of the most common edging options available in the market. It is one of the classic edging choice that are widely available everywhere and an inexpensive option nonetheless. When edging your garden with bricks make sure:
• Push the bricks tightly together when paving the edging borders to reduce the space taken around the lawn. This will allow the turfs to spread easily.
• Lay the bricks in a bed of sand to prevent the edging from heaving and unevenness.
• You can use mismatched bricks and place them diagonally to produce 19th century domino effect in your garden edging.
• Make sure to dig a trench and several inches of sand for smooth drainage and to avoid brick heaving.
2. Cast Concrete Edging
• Kerbing your garden through concrete garden borders edging helps ease the mowing movement.
• Concrete edging generally follows a serpentine shape and creates a winding path through the landscape.
• Adding varying heights to the kerbing process adds attractiveness and allows a smoother transition on a slope or uneven landscape.
3. Flagstone Garden Edging
• If you have a country or cottage styled garden, edging your garden beds with flagstone will add a more classic look to it.
• Flagstones are available in a wide-variety of colours and thickness.
• This provides a contrast and versatile solution to decorate your garden through proper coordination with the plants and stonework present around the garden.
• They are an extremely durable solution and due to its irregular shape, the flagstones stack comfortably in your yard!
4. Rock Garden Edging
• Rock shapes are available in various shapes and colours.
• You can mix and match them to get a natural garden edge.
• Bulky multicolour rocks generally compliment this informal landscaping style.
• Growing alyssum to creep over in between the round boulders and rocks is a great way to create a lacy scalloped look in the landscaped flower bed. This will help make your concrete garden borders even more interesting.
5. Garden Edging with Plants
• Low mounding plants are a great landscaping garden edging choice.
• When your garden bed is adorned with multi-coloured low-growing plants of sweet alyssum, veronica, bouncing bet, Artemisia, Coral-bells or candytuft soften hard edges, it will only make your garden look more spectacular.
6. Recycled-Bottle Garden Edging
• Another great and innovative concrete garden borders idea that you can implement on garden includes edging your garden with coloured-glass bottles. It provides a funky and down-home look to your garden.
• All you have to do is bury the neck of the bottles down, side-by-side in the soil to be used as a garden edging material.
• In order to prevent the weeds from drifting towards the lawn bed, sink sheet of aluminium flashing into the ground along with the bottles.
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