Natural Stone Garden Edging

Landscape edging is used for so many reasons. It helps maintain the shape of a garden bed, prevents the soil from escaping, and helps keep the grass from spreading into the flower bed or garden. Oh yes, and landscape edging helps to keep those pesky weeds out of your beautiful garden! Garden edgings are great because they also facilitate the flow of one surface into another, and often the edging material used is purely functional and often hidden. However, if you are leaning towards natural stone for your edging you are in for a treat. Natural stone landscape edging will definitely distinguish your garden beds from the rest of your yard.



As you may have already guessed, garden edgings come in different styles and materials, and can be decorative in appearance as well, which helps set the gardens style. Making sure that the edging you decide to use is properly installed will enhance your gardens, and make them last for years to come.



Are you looking to use natural stone for your landscaping edging project? Depending on the type of stone you use and the way it’s laid; you can give your garden a relaxed, rustic feel, or a more formal, structured feel. You will find a variety of natural stone types to choose from, at a Natural Stone Retailer and Stone Wholesaler company such as Stone Haven Inc. Their expertise will give you the added tips to picking the most suitable natural stone for your garden edging project, along with a guided plan for installation. Stone edging is relatively simple to install, once you understand what you need to do, but be prepared, a few tools and manual labour is required. Remember that landscaping stones can be quite heavy and is often difficult to reposition once it’s been secured into place – so be sure of what you want to do – have a plan! Or be prepared for another backbreaking days work if you do not like the finished project first time round!



Fieldstone is a popular choice these days for garden edging, offering gardens a more rustic look. When Fieldstone is laid on its edge it makes a fence-like edging around the chosen garden. The edging is set back from the lawn edge to make mowing and raking easier.



For a more formal look try a rectangular baton stone laid flat or on its edge, this gives a more structured feel to the garden.



And for a more neat and tidy formal appearance, try cut natural stones.



Also by recessing flagstone or flat cut river rock you’ll create that beautiful easy to maintain edging that even a mower can run over. For a more predominate and noticeable edging, try placing geometric shaped (square, round or rectangular) natural stone around the gardens edge.



The color of the stone also plays an important role in the appearance of your garden stone edging project. Be sure to choose a color that complements or contrasts with the growing foliage in your flower beds. You should also keep in mind that if you already have a landscape theme happening in your backyard; then you should use the same type of natural stone for walls and or walk ways. Natural stone garden edging is timeless; it never seems to go out of style.



Stone Haven, Inc. is a natural stone retailer and stone wholesaler located near Montreal, providing natural stone and landscaping rock to homeowners as well as architects and landscaping professionals.

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