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8 Inexpensive Garden Edging Ideas

Garden Edging Ideas That Will Sharpen Your Yard



Create a crisp, clean design within your landscaping by using borders to outline different areas of your garden. Define designated growing areas from your flower beds to vegetable gardens. These inexpensive edging ideas will add character and texture to landscaping beds. With a few simple materials and an afternoon, you can use rustic bricks or concrete stones to outline any area.


1 Brick garden edging


Brick is a common natural edging choice: it's classic, widely available, and relatively inexpensive. Push the bricks tightly together to minimize gaps where the floor can slip. Lay your bricks on a bed of sand to prevent heat and unevenness at the edge of your garden.


Editor's Tip: If you place the brick just above the soil, you can use it as a cutting block by running the wheel of the lawnmower over the brick. This eliminates the need for trimming.


2 Diagonal brick garden edging



For a 19th-century domino effect at the edge of your garden, place old, mismatched bricks diagonally. Dig a trench and add several inches of sand to the drain so the bricks don't rise. Place the bricks in the trench, one half exposed, leaning tightly against the next, then fill with soil. If you are edging several garden beds, slope all the bricks in the same direction.


3 Flagstone Garden Edging


Edging your landscaping garden beds with flagstone gives them a classic look that's particularly well-suited to country and cottage gardens. Flagstone is available in many colors and thicknesses, so it can easily be used to coordinate or contrast with your plants, other stonework in the landscape, or the stonework of your home. Irregularly shaped, the flagstones are durable and stacked securely in the yard.


4 Rock Garden Edge



Mix and match rock patterns and colors for a natural stone garden edging. Large multicolored rocks complete the informal style of this landscape. Arranged in a winding pattern, the rounded boulders allow sweet alyssum to creep between and among the rocks, creating a lacy, scalloped appearance in this landscaped flower bed.


5 Cobblestone Garden Edging


Square stones of granite garden edging combine with Korean boxwood fencing to give this landscape shape. 'Annabel' and oak leaf hydrangeas add white-blooming flowers, and their large leaves contrast with the textures and patterns of the pavement, edging, and hedge.


6 Garden borders with plants



Low, climbing plants make a wonderful landscaping garden edging choice. Planted in a long clump, low-growing sweet alyssum (shown here), veronica, bouncing bed, artemisia, coralbells, or candytuft will soften hard edges and provide a splash of color.


7 Recycle-Bottle Garden Edge


Put your landscape in stained glass bottles for a funky, down-home look in your yard. To use as a garden edging, bury the bottle's neck down, sideways, in the soil. To prevent soil or weeds from migrating from the lawn into your beds, sink aluminum foil 8 inches into the ground with glow bottles.


8 Cast concrete flanges



Concrete garden edging makes mowing easy, and its serpentine shape creates a winding path in the landscape shown here. Varying heights add interest and allow for a smooth transition on a slope or uneven terrain.

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