Lawn border edging MSE style?

Farway

Arthurian said:

I have seen empty wine bottles used as a garden edging, but haven't any experience of that personally, so not sure how much weeding you'd have to do around the bottles or if it would damage the lawnmower blade. Just a row of empty bottles turned upside down and pushed into the soil so all you see is the bottom of the bottle.

Nothing new under the sun in gardening, is there ? 

I remember my grandad had edged his path with beer bottles, back in the days when wine was foreign posh stuff, ferns grew inside, and I was always in awe at this, probably partly triggered my love of gardening

kimwp

I like the idea of a natural barrier, maybe a thin ditch or a plant that the grass can't get through.  Some people put their flower/veg beds at a lower level than the grass.

ArbitraryRandom

The link above had a lovely looking natural barrier with Sweet Alyssum

twopenny

You ask for photos but surely you don't expect us to spend time doing that for you?
The link i posted had several.

I created a year round colour, easy maintain side garden by spending warm evenings walking round houses to see what other people had.
Why not do that and you can see ideas for real including if there's an earth space between lawn and trim?
I did mine a hoes width wide so a quick tidy up.

PS. Choogiepigs, woodlice are mostly female. They get the odd male for breeding 

subjecttocontract

The RHS web pages have a selection of lawn edging and they sell the metal strips that can be bent to any shape.....not cheap but good value compared to bricks or bottles. Installed and left to go rusty means they will be very fashionable.  Apparently rust is the new 'in' colour for gardens Get them delivered and ask your gardener to fit them and you won't even need to get your hands dirty. Search the web for RHS.......there are lots of pictures.

Dustyevsky

subjecttocontract said:

The RHS web pages have a selection of lawn edging and they sell the metal strips that can be bent to any shape.....not cheap but good value compared to bricks or bottles. Installed and left to go rusty means they will be very fashionable.  Apparently rust is the new 'in' colour for gardens Get them delivered and ask your gardener to fit them and you won't even need to get your hands dirty. Search the web for RHS.......there are lots of pictures.

Top advice! Mind you, I prefer the more severe look of concrete kerbstones, which hint at greater discipline, if you get my meaning. Too often, I see, the rusty patina of Everedge at RHS Rosemoor, polished and defiled by persons of lax character, deviating from the approved routes, along what are known as, 'pathways of desire.' Shocking, I know, but true.

To keep people and plants in their proper place, a solid grey kerb does the job effectively, and it's possible to have these cast to almost any radius one might wish.

As it happens, I'm having some specially made kerbs delivered this week so when George and Cyril have unloaded them, I'll post a few photos.

ArbitraryRandom

Going the hard landscaping route, I saw this the other day (Pinterest suggestion) and thought of this thread. Not cheap if you're buying the blocks, but if you have a chance to 'reclaim' flags from a skip, it seemed a nice variation on the tile idea. 

moneysaver1978

twopenny said:

You ask for photos but surely you don't expect us to spend time doing that for you?
The link i posted had several.

I created a year round colour, easy maintain side garden by spending warm evenings walking round houses to see what other people had.
Why not do that and you can see ideas for real including if there's an earth space between lawn and trim?
I did mine a hoes width wide so a quick tidy up.

PS. Choogiepigs, woodlice are mostly female. They get the odd male for breeding 

Oh no, no offence meant. I know how to use Google and I already have a few photos sorted from the likes of Pininterest, Instagram, and even checking out our neighbourhood.

I asked for your photos because I thought this would make for an interesting thread amongst us experienced and budding gardeners.

twopenny

Ok, photos eventually ;-)

Google is a soul destroyer. I saved lots of glorious ideas for my new never been touched plot none of which happened. But it was fun for the stuff of dreams.

Did give me ideas to adapt and a bit of imagination.

I found the practical side is fighting the desirable side. Seems my grand and not so grand plan needs to be ditched if I want delicious fruit and veg in my small plot.

But borders with gravel I found need something between the grass and gravel that is sturdy.

My hover mower blows the gravel everywhere!