When you first design a garden, the question arises as to whether the beds should be bordered or not. Maybe this topic will come up later. However, the decision is very individual and depends on your personal taste.
What options are there for edging a garden bed?
A garden bed can be bordered with different materials such as wood, metal, plastic or stone. Bed borders create visual boundaries, limit root growth and can serve as decorative design elements. Cheap options include plastic or old bricks, while stone and weather-resistant wood are more durable.
What are the advantages of a bed border?
With a bed border you not only create a visual demarcation and a certain order in your garden. They also limit the growth of roots from one area to another. You can also use the border as a decorative design element and plant a hedge, for example.
The advantages of a bed border:
- optical demarcation
- “decent” view
- Limiting root growth
- decorative design element
What can I use to border my garden bed?
A wide variety of materials are available to you to design your bed borders, such as wood, metal, plastic or stone. A border with boxwood is also classic, but planting herbs to separate beds from each other is a little more unusual.
Whether you want to use evergreen plants or old bricks, let your imagination run wild. There are countless decorative variations. However, if you want your edging to serve a specific purpose, then not every material may be suitable.
Which bed edgings are particularly cost-effective?
Plastic bed borders (€15.00 on Amazon) that you can find in hardware stores are relatively cheap. However, these are not very durable. Also cheap are home-grown herbs that you can also use in the kitchen, or old bricks that get a second life. A small woven fence is relatively time-consuming to produce, but it fits wonderfully into a natural garden.
Which bed edgings are particularly durable?
Of course, stone edgings are considered particularly durable, regardless of whether you want to use paving stones or field stones. Granite is also well suited, although it is significantly more expensive than old brick. If you are looking for durable wood, we recommend weather-resistant varieties such as robinia, larch or Douglas fir.
Tip
Make sure that your bed edging matches the rest of your garden so that the overall picture looks harmonious.
