With a pretty border you not only give the flowers an attractive frame, they also show the boundaries of the lawn and make mowing work easier. There are various options for bordering the bed, of which we would like to introduce you to the most common ones, which can all be realized using DIY.
Which materials are suitable for homemade bed borders?
When making a bed border yourself, materials such as wood, curbs, bricks or plants such as boxwood can be used. DIY solutions include installing wooden palisades, building a pallet wood border, setting bricks in concrete, or planting a living bed border.
Which materials are suitable?
Depending on what look suits the garden design and how much money and work you want to invest, different materials are available for the self-built border:
- Wood
- Curbs
- Plants like boxwood
- Brick
The wooden lawn edge
This bed border fits in very well in natural gardens and is easy to build. You can insert pre-treated half-round wood (€39.00 at Amazon) (palisades) that are connected at the back directly into the ground with a rubber mallet. Also very pretty: braided elements made from willow branches. You can easily build these yourself using DIY:
- Tighten the guide line and drive in three to five stakes per meter vertically
- Weave in rods, paying attention to a harmonious overall appearance.
- Thick parts of the braiding material should always meet thin ones.
Bed border made of pallet wood
This somewhat more robust border is particularly suitable for the vegetable patch, because you can even attach plant fleeces to it. This rather simple and practical bed border is also very cost-effective.
Here, too, stakes driven into the ground provide the necessary support. The long boards of the dismantled pallets are nailed to these. It is recommended to paint the wood in advance to make it weatherproof.
Bricks or clinker blocks
This bed border is also very easy to implement DIY. You can simply place the stones on the bed as a boundary. The edge will be more stable if you place the stones in a concrete bed, which is completely uncomplicated:
- Dig the soil about 15 centimeters deep.
- Drive in the rods and stretch a string.
- Pour in sand and gravel and fill with a bed of mortar.
- Press bricks into this bed, using the guide line as a guide.
- Let it harden for a few days and then spread soil up to the edge.
The living bed border
Bed borders made from plants such as boxwood have been used for hundreds of years. If you don't want to build a wooden border yourself, this is an attractive option. Once planted, this bed border proves to be very easy to care for, as it only needs to be cut into shape occasionally.
Tip
The so-called “English lawn edge”, the seamless transition between lawn and bed, has many fans. However, this border is very maintenance-intensive. You must re-cut the lawn at least every four weeks to ensure that the greenery does not grow into the bed.