Landscape Edging

Landscape edging adds a nice decorative touch and provides a crisp border to your landscaping.  Landscape edging also helps to keep soil and mulch in and grass out of your flower beds, cutting down on weed pulling and re-mulching.  

There are many types of landscaping edging to choose from, wood, plastic, metal, stone, brick and concrete landscape edging. Which type of landscape edging you choose is a decision based on the look you're trying to achieve and how much time and money you want to spend.

Here are the basic facts for the different types of landscape edging available:

Plastic Landscape Edging

 Plastic landscape edging is often the choice of do it yourself landscapers because of the fairly simple installation process and low cost of plastic landscaping borders. Plastic edging should be installed when it is warm because the warmer the weather outside, the more flexible and bendable the plastic pieces will be.   

Metal Landscape Edging

Metal landscaping edging is used and installed much like plastic edging but it is more expensive and it lasts nearly forever. Metal edging is often the choice of professional landscaping contractors because of its ability to make perfect circles for edging trees and act as a bed lip on landscape island borders.

Stone and Brick Landscape Edging

Fieldstone and brick laid on its edge to make borders gives a nice look, but unless they are mortared together, grass will quickly find its way into nooks and crannies. Edgings made from mortared stone or brick will last a long time and define your landscaping beds with a unique landscape border. 

You can also try interlocking pavers, which are interlocking landscaping bricks that achieve a tight fit without mortar. Available in different colors and styles, these bricks can be used to create simple borders or even raised beds and garden walls.

Concrete Landscape Edging  

Get truly professional looks with concrete landscape edging surrounding your landscaping beds, walkways and driveway. Concrete landscape edging can be customized to fit the style and color of your home by coloring the concrete and using design stamps. With these techniques your concrete landscape edging can be made to look like bricks, stones, rock or even wood!