- What are the advantages of a bed edging?
- How can I border my garden bed?
- Which bed edgings are particularly inexpensive?
- Which bed edgings are particularly durable?
When designing a garden for the first time, the question arises as to whether the beds should be bordered or not. Maybe this topic will come up later. However, the decision is very individual and depends on your personal taste.
A bed edging does not have to be expensive
What are the advantages of a bed edging?
With a bed edging, you not only create a visual demarcation and a certain order in your garden. They also limit the growth of roots from one area to another. You can also use the border as a decorative design element and plant a hedge, for example.
The advantages of a bed edging:
- optical demarcation
- "neat" sight
- Limiting root growth
- decorative design element
How can I border my garden bed?
A wide variety of materials are available for the design of your bed borders, such as wood, metal, plastic or stone. A border with boxwood is also classic, while planting herbs to separate beds is a bit more unusual.
Whether you want to use evergreen plants or old bricks, let your imagination run wild. There are countless decorative variants. However, if you want your surround to serve a specific purpose, not every material may be suitable.
Which bed edgings are particularly inexpensive?
Plastic bed edgings, which you can find in hardware stores, are relatively cheap. However, these are not very durable. Herbs that you have grown yourself, which you can also use in the kitchen, or old bricks that get a second life are also cheap. A small wicker fence is relatively complex to produce, but it fits wonderfully into a natural garden.
Which bed edgings are particularly durable?
Of course, stone edgings are considered to be particularly durable, regardless of whether you want to use cobblestones or field stones. Granite is also well suited, although it is significantly more expensive than old brick. If you are looking for durable wood, we recommend weather-resistant varieties such as robinia, larch or Douglas fir.
tips
Make sure your edging matches the rest of your garden style so that the overall picture looks harmonious.