Landscape Edging

Landscape edging plays an important role in your backyard landscape. The most common purpose of edging is to define a line between beds and your lawn. It also helps keep your turf grass from invading your beds, plus it keeps soil and mulch from spilling over into your lawn.

With so many different types of decorative edging available it would be hard for me to discuss them all, so I will tell you about the 4 most common landscape edging materials used by landscape contractors.

Landscape Edging Materials

Stone: Can give your landscape a formal or rustic look depending on how you lay it and the stone you choose. Fieldstone will give you a more rustic look while Cut Stone makes a neater more formal appearance.

The color of the stone also plays an important role too. Choose a color that complements or contrasts with your foliage in your bed. Also keep in mind if you a have landscape theme for your backyard use the same stone for walls or walks.

Plastic: Plastic edging is the easiest to install and is least expensive for landscape edging. Its only purpose is to define beds and keep landscape material in it place. By choosing a more expensive brand of plastic edging it will look better and is much more durable.

Steel: Steel edging is a more durable and longer lasting, as with plastic there is no decorative value. It's not that much harder to install than plastic, but is more expensive. When considering steel edging look for a 10 gauge grade of steel.

Brick: Brick or performed concrete edging is common in most mass merchandiser stores. This type of edging is fairly easy to install and gives your landscape beds a more formal look, many styles and colors are available.