Edging your lawn can improve its value and set it apart from other homes in the neighborhood. Lawn edging can also accentuate your home, whether it is natural — like rock, wood or mulch — or simulated, such as plastic, metal or brick. To keep creeping grass at bay, pick edging textures and colors that highlight the palette of your property.
Listed below are some edging ideas that may be interesting in your yard or along your driveway:
1. Rock Lawn Edging
Rocks make a great driveway edging or edging for a flower bed. It’s very eco-friendly and blends in with nature. Dig up the grass and lay down a layer of sand first. Then, place rocks with interesting texture or colors on top.
2. Wood Yard Edging
Many people like to use railroad ties as lawn edging. The problem is the coating on them isn’t eco-friendly. Consider adding a rustic appearance to your home with staggered wood borders of varying heights or cedar edging.
3. Plants
You can always plant hedges or flowers for a natural edging for your lawn. Strip the ground free of grass, lay down landscaping fabric, plant different flowers or shrubs and layer with mulch or pebbles.
4. Plastic Edging
Plastic yard edging can greatly reduce yard work and keep grass from spilling over into your beds or walkways. Home Depot makes Emerald Edge Plastic Edging that is flexible and connects to form a continuous border. It’s made of 100% recyclable plastic and hammers into place, with no digging required.
5. Metal Lawn Edging
Metal grass edging highlights your landscape with clean lines that won’t rot or become brittle in freezing weather. Many metal lawn edgings come in colors like earthen brown, dark green and black.
6. Concrete Yard Edging
Yard edging with concrete borders create an effective weed barrier that won’t pop out, rust or rot. Concrete yard edging can be scalloped or accentuate the color of your home with rusts, sand or browns. It can also help retain much needed mulch for your beds.
7. Brick Lawn Edging
Apply earthy brick colors as stepping stones or borders for your lawn. First, dig up grass to about four inches deep, apply a layer of sand, and then lay the bricks. Sweep sand between the bricks when finished.
8. Ever Edge Lawn Edging
Ever Edge is made of galvanized mild steel and coated with a corrosion-resistant finish that makes light work of your lawn work. It works great for driveway edgings, beds and grass edgings. You can even run the lawnmower of this stuff!
9. Fencing
Although fencing as yard edging won’t stop creeping grass, it will add interest to your lawn and keep some unwanted visitors out of certain spots. Fencing is available in wire, plastics and wood.
10. Emsco Edging
The Emsco Group makes all kinds of edging made from hard resin. Faux rock and fencing offer durability with little effort. Available in hammer-in and interlocking textures and colors.
Resources:
homedepot.com
borderconcepts.com
everedge.com
emscogroup.com
