Design Your Garden With Your Personality in Mind

Designing your backyard doesn’t just add character to your home. It also serves as an investment in case you decide to eventually decide to sell your house. A beautifully tended garden and lawn can add value to the sale.

This is one of the reasons many homeowners are investing in hiring landscape artists to provide the perfect garden edging solutions for their garden design. 

But before you hire a landscape artist, make sure you do some research first on the overall design you want for your garden. The landscape artist would be able to suggest different themes and styles for you, but for you to enjoy tending to your garden, it’s always best to design something that would reflect your personality. You can do this by choosing the design and plants that would be added and the materials to be used.

One of the most overlooked materials in designing gardens is garden edgings. There are a variety of materials, designs, and colors you can choose from, which you can use to separate distinct elements of your garden and accentuate its beauty. These can also provide the finishing touch of the overall design of your garden.

Materials for garden edging

Plastic

Although simple and not glamorous, plastic edging is the easiest to install of all the garden edging solutions available. They are available in your local home improvement supplies shop or online and often come in individual sections or long rolls. They also come in various colors, designs, and heights that you can choose to suit your needs.

This type of edging is usually part of DIY gardening because it is easy to install: you need to dig a trench into sinking the edging, and you are done. Plastic edgings are also the cheapest among the available types of edgings.

The downside to this type of edging is that while plastic may last longer, it can still be easily broken with lawn maintenance equipment or natural forces like the sun and intense winds. Prolonged exposure to intense heat could deform plastic edgings. If you are the type of person that is tight on the budget and needs something for now, plastic edgings might work for you.

Paver Stones

Paver stones are usually made from concrete or clay. They are nearly indestructible unless subjected to intense pressure or heavyweights. They can serve two purposes: to design your garden path and to use as flower bed edgings. If you prefer a natural and rustic look, paver stones might be the perfect edging material for you.

The downside to using paver stones as your garden edging is that they might need treatment because they are made of natural materials. Hence, moss may grow on them. They might also not effectively separate your lawn and flower beds because they are only placed on top of the soil. Weeds and grass may be able to creep from beneath paver stones. They are also time-consuming to install because they are heavy to handle.

Metal

Metal edgings are fast becoming a part of most landscape projects nowadays for several reasons. Metal edgings provide a clear separation between your flower beds and garden path. If installed properly, they would effectively block weeds and grass from populating your flower beds. Metal edgings are also maintenance-free, durable, and last a long time. If you like simple lines and a minimalistic look, metal edgings would be perfect for you.

The downside to metal edgings is that they are more expensive than other garden edgings and that they will eventually form rusts, especially when exposed to constant rainfall.

Poured Concrete

This type of edging is not usually for your DIY projects and would need experienced workers to make it because mistakes would not be easy to fix. In working with poured concrete, you need to build a mold first, mix the concrete, and then pour it onto your mold. Poured concrete lasts a long time and might be a good investment.

The downside to poured concrete is that the layout of your flower bed won’t be easily adjustable. Should you wish to rearrange your design, you need to rebuild the whole structure and start from the beginning.

There are still many garden edging options that are available that would suit every garden style, design, and even your personality. If you want your garden to reflect your unique design personality, do the necessary research before contacting your favored landscape artist. Make sure that you tell them exactly what you envision your garden would look like. But do listen to the expert as well as they would know and suggest to you what works best for you.