Top Landscape Edging Ideas to Help Make Your Garden Amazing

You know those amazing and beautiful lawns and gardens where every detail is well designed? If you are looking to create the perfect garden for your home, you need to look at the small details that can help make it look gorgeous, too. One of the tricks to build your own artistic looking garden or lawn is to use landscape edging.

Landscape edging, also known as landscape border, is the way to define specific areas of your garden to give it a more polished and manicured appearance without the need to spend a lot of money. There are a number of benefits to adding edging to your landscape. Here are a few examples:

Defines a walkway or path
Provides a cleaning trimming or mowing line
Prevents the roots of lawn grasses from entering the flower beds
Keep mulch where necessary
Show off shrubs and beautiful flowers
Complement or contrast the house and landscape
Enhance the appeal of your property

If you have a garden, then you know the patience, effort, and hard work it takes to make it look attractive and beautiful. A nice landscape border will add even more to it and it can be made from many types of materials from pavers to plants. Here are some landscape edging ideas to take inspiration from.

Perennial Border

This is a popular method of bordering, particularly among flower gardeners, where you add more plant life to create a border, particularly around a lawn or landscaped area. For the perennial border, you will need to dig up the ground in the bed and should add the appropriate nutrients for the flowers you want to grow.

Ground cover is also a quite popular choice for planting a border garden. But, if you are looking for something more formal, you can also opt for evergreen bushes like box shrubs. Tallgrass and bushes, like forsythia, are also favorites for use in larger perennial borders.

Brick Edging

Brick is commonly used in landscaping. Adding a brick border to your landscaping can add the sense of sophistication you are looking for. It is perfect to be used as a border between your lawn and planting bed or other high traffic areas. And it makes even more sense if you happen to have a brick patio area or walkways. You can choose from different brick colors such as red, gray, or even from unclaimed brick to match other colors in your landscaping.

Another consideration is the orientation of your bricks. You can lay them to create a thin border or lay them side by side for a much thicker border. Choosing to lay them in a pattern design is very popular, too. Lastly, you can choose to either mortar them or not depending on the type of garden you have.

Concrete Curbing

Concrete landscape curbing is sometimes used to create a distinct line between the lawn and your planting bed. Typically used along a sidewalk, it can be installed alone or used in combination with a border garden or a strand of decorative gravel. Here, the concrete is laid down in the desired shape in your specific choice of color and different finishing options.

Rock Edging

Stone landscape edging is perfect for those looking for a natural look for their gardens. You can choose from smaller or larger rocks depending on the kind of contrast and visual interest you want to create.

Cut stone can create a more formal look, as pictured here, whereas stone in its natural shape is less uniform and is perfect for casual-looking gardens. Homeowners often choose to add lighting to at the boundaries, which can be quite useful and beautiful.

DIY or Professional Design & Installation

You may try DIY landscape edging, but you might not get the perfect result the first time. That’s why it is often best to hire a landscaping professional to ensure you can make your garden look beautiful.

Heartland Landscape Group has been designing and edging landscapes and hardscapes for years and we’ll be glad to help you with yours. Just give us a call!