When landscaping your lawn, it is always best to follow some basic landscaping design and yard edging ideas. Landscaping design is not only for making the yard look great; it is also a way of keeping your grass nourished and green. A well-designed edging helps you beautify the whole landscape, make it appear more attractive to people and keep maintenance to a minimum. Here are some landscaping design ideas and how they can be used for landscaping your yard.
One of the best lawn edging ideas that can give an attractive border to a garden is to create raised pavers. The pavers can be laid on top of the soil and left there for years. During winter, you just need to break up the concrete and spread mulch over it, leaving the raised borders free of sod. They can be used on top of flower beds or on the edges of the garden, according to the size you choose. You can even add night lights underneath them for a little extra ambience.
Another one of the landscaping design ideas that works well is to create small bistros or tables in the garden by laying out a series of planters and small benches at certain points in the garden. It can also be done on the lawn edge. Using large rocks, sand, or boulders that have holes in the bottom will work well. Laying sand along the edges of the bed will prevent weeds from growing in between the sand, and the smaller rocks can be used as seating around a patio. This is a simple, easy, and inexpensive way to liven up the garden and keep the lawn edge looking neat.
One of the best landscaping design ideas to use when creating borders for a yard is to use large stones. One of the reasons why this is a good idea is because larger stones are not as slippery as grass when wet. When large stones are laid across an area, the edges of the stones will remain flat, which helps to prevent the grass from growing between them. If you live in an area where ice is available, then it is even better because the frozen grass can help to hold the stones in place. Another advantage is that if you put in large stones around a patio, then it will cut down on the need for additional patio furniture such as tables and chairs.
If you want to do something more professional than this, then you can get creative with a concrete border edging. Concrete borders are durable, they come in a variety of different colors, and you can paint them the color you like. A concrete border is great because it does not have to be permanently installed. You can take it apart, and if you decide to sell your home or just move, then you can take the concrete border with you.
Of course there is also the option of planting grass in your landscape border. This can be done in different ways and I have found that one of the most fun is to plant flowers in the edging. This allows you to create a beautiful design, but it also gives you the freedom to move the flower beds around in the future. In this way you can easily create different looks for different seasons.
What about planting roses in the beds? This is a great idea for those that want to add some color to their lawn. Also remember that you want to make sure that there are no sharp edges so that you do not accidentally damage your lawn. Before you plant anything, you should run a wire over the grass near the edge to ensure that it is not going to grow up into the grass. It is OK if the grass grows up a little because that is what makes it fun! If you do not have any grass, then it is very easy to plant an herb garden in the edges.
If you do not want the plants to grow up to the edges then you can use small plants to fill in the spaces between your pebbles. For example, you can fill a few pebbles in with big bluestone and then place the bluestone close to the edge of your lawn. You can then put a few small plants in the spaces between the pebbles or small plant flowers next to the pebbles. All of these ideas will help you create a beautiful edge around your garden and by doing so you will not worry about your landscaping having a poor look.