How to give your garden a winning landscape edge

The priority for many gardeners is how to beautify their garden with carefully selected plants and flowers and how to keep them looking best throughout the growing season. Planting, pruning, and lawn maintenance are essential to get the most year-round pleasure from your outdoor space.

Garden borders and beds are the most labour-intensive elements of a garden, and if deprived of regular attention they can look messy making an otherwise flawless garden, appear uncared for. It is the clarity of the borders and beds that give a garden the winning landscape edge. 

What’s the difference between a garden bed and border?

Borders are landscape dividers and used to separate different components of the garden such as the lawn from paths, walls, fences, or steps. By contrast, garden beds are stand alone and an island (or series of islands) in a lawn, in a corner of the garden or around a tree.

Well-defined garden edging transforms a garden, swiftly elevating the aesthetics from good to great. This is why gardeners commit so much time and energy to edging their lawns and garden borders, to define the separate sections.

What is the best landscape edging?

There are a host of low maintenance options to choose from to use as garden edging:

·        Bricks

·        Timber

·        Plastic

·        Slabs

However, they do not provide a long terms solution for a low maintenance border. Even if you have paid a premium for a high-quality professional garden edging installation, over time bricks and slabs become uneven and plants have the notorious capacity for growing through cracks. Timber degrades overtime, and plastic becomes brittle and snaps, leaving potentially painful sharp edges.

Using metal landscape edging is a gardening hack, a shortcut to avoid having to repeat the strenuous task of maintaining immaculate borders. Steel is the best material for landscape edging; it’s maintenance free, weather resistant and tough, yet flexible. EverEdge provides two steel edging solutions for New Zealand gardens:

·        EverEdge Classic: a galvanised and powder coated steel edging that comes in brown or black landscape edging.

·        EverEdge Cor-Ten: a steel garden edging that spectacularly weathers naturally.

No matter the shape of the border you are developing, EverEdge steel landscape edging is versatile. The flexibility of the edging strips means you can easily create edging to follow any contour of garden border, path or lawn. You also have the option to install metal tree ring edging to make your favourite trees even more of a feature in your garden.  

How easy is it to install steel edging?

Steel edging is easy to install. All EverEdge products are sold with a comprehensive installation guide, click here to watch a short film that explains the process. As with all DIY projects, the most time-consuming part of installing steel edging in your garden is the preparation.

If you would like to learn more about how EverEdge metal landscape edging can be used in your garden, contact us today. Whether you need guidance to help you decide to go for the Classic EverEdge or Corten steel edging, or advice on the size of metal tree ring edging you need, drop us a line or call 021 925 389.