Admiring beautiful, for example, English gardens and parks, admiring their compositions and wondering well-groomed, unwittingly carrying some parallels, one can not make a substantial difference from our gardens. This design of “border zone” – the borders of flower beds and plantings. It is intelligently designed borders, giving the orderly and well-kept garden, indicate a high class garden design.
About what, in fact, the boundaries in question? First of all, we are talking about a neat separation of different materials and ways to cover the soil, prevent their interpenetration. The first is clearly legible through the lawn and plantings. But not only. The issue of borders in the garden is much more multifaceted. These include levels and paving joints and lawn areas and gravel zasypok seats. Often in our gardens, these lines are blurred or not visible. While subject to the laws of border grass never creep in the paving, gravel will not be on the lawn, while the trunks of trees and retaining walls will not stand “tail” of grass, around which you will run with a trimmer and scissors.

Does this sound familiar? Believe me, once spending efforts to establish a garden border, you get eye pleasing effect and for a long time save yourself from problems.
Bound for business

The boundary line may be purely functional or simply decorative, and it is a very significant difference. The border that you spend “for cause” shall limit the zone of application of various materials, to build their territory (including the use of divisive borders) and thereby facilitate the care of the garden. For this purpose, as a constraint on use of plastic and metal garden borders, corners and ribbons. Flexible, dull, negofrirovannye plastic edges of black and brown, subtle, effective and durable. They allow you to frame any form.

English lawns, like green rivers flowing curves running through the garden, admire. They are expressive, well defined edges, enveloping flower and composition, not only support the beauty of lines, but also facilitates maintenance. Of course, in fairness it is worth noting that the perception of a large extent affects the different quality of English lawn, it is more low and dense. Yet it is perhaps the most important line in the garden – the line design edge the lawn.

To get a clear line of lawn edges trimmed its special flat tool in the shape of a crescent or a sharp spade. All straight lines cut by the board or a tight rope, curved – on the decomposition of the hose. From the ground forming a groove depth of three to four centimeters. A strip of land with a slope towards planting contain pure or mulching. To edge of the lawn were more dense, sowing norm on the edge of doubles and the lawn regularly fed.

From the lawn turf can be mounted using a plastic or steel corner tape, strips of galvanized iron (with pre-curved edge). This border must not protrude above the soil surface is higher than one or two centimeters to mower blades easily mowed the lawn on the edge.

Floating edge of the lawn has to cut at least twice per season, in spring, when everything inevitably blurred edges and in need of repair, and in the middle of the summer after the regrowth of grass. Fixed cut eliminates the need to correct the edge.

Clarity and accuracy of lines lawn completely unrelated to the stylistics of the garden and should be easy to read regardless of whether they are direct and regular or smooth and landscape. In British gardens, often edge extended mixborders limited bandwidth of the situation on the edge of bricks.

If the design of the garden are used backfilling with inert materials, which tend to spread on the lawn, for example, gravel or marble chips, the use of restrictive curbs mandatory. Using a flexible metal corner, you can achieve interesting effects, alternating filling of various colors and sizes.

The relationship between height and has a direct bearing on the decision of garden borders. It is important to consider at the stage favorite lawn and walkways. To limit the lawn and the path was clear and easy to mow, originally the ground level should be three to four inches below the pavement. If you fill up the soil level with the pavement, the grass will grow later in the track and clear the edges will not work if the same level significantly lower, when mowing along the edges of paving remain a fringe of grass, since the mower blades will not come close to the track, which means you will have to walk with the lawn with scissors. For this reason, towering over any obstacles on the lawn, including retaining walls, large rocks, walls, arbors, lawn, etc. do not fit closely, but leave a small gap, which bombard mulching materials.

It is impossible not to touch on the concept of planting space, that is, a single form for planting, surrounded by lawn. This placement of plants, characteristic of European gardens, spectacular and functional than the scattered landing on the lawn. The soil inside the seat, the rest free for the growth of plants, plant creeping perennials and ground cover or mulching bark or chips.

For a single located on the lawn of trees and shrubs should be cut clean and maintain tree trunks. The trunks, surrounded by grass sticking out, do not decorate the garden.
Limit Beauty

In order to decorate the garden used decorative edging. Let’s not forget that their application does not address issues of actual separation at ground level, so the problem remains the design limits. It is equally important that the decorative edging, which primarily include all sorts of plastic curbs and fences, were functionally and stylistically justified.

Choosing from the proposed market diversity, it is better to stay at the brown and dark green colors, as red-brown, piercing green and even white too bright and can argue with perennials.

Exhibiting three-dimensional edge between flower beds and lawn, you should leave the five-, desyatisantimetrovuyu strip of soil to cut the grass.

Since the decorative edging perform decorating feature, they should match the style of plot and flower beds. For example, a naive white fences will be to place on the playground, in the garden or in the composition of the country style, but completely out of place at the forefront of cereal, or, say, a luxury exotic flower garden. Hurdle from the vines and twigs organically supplement the natural and rural composition, but probably not a front flower bed at the cottage.

Quite a few harsh words said about the perimeter of the stones has passed the flower beds, but the oversized boulders to the road shoulders are still regularly mount our landing. Tell me, what connection has a magnificent rose garden or flower bed with a bright stone ridge of boulders and pellets? Even if it rockeries or gravel flower bed, where the presence of stone to explain, unless of course will look at the edge of the stone snakes?

But it’s not so bad. Any design must be functional. Because the mower will inevitably leave the grass around the stones, it will pull up a painful way. If a soul asks stone, then, for example, to demarcate the tree trunks of large trees can be used does not interfere with mowing flat flagstone.

The options volume okantovok there are many. In Apothecary garden in Moscow, for example, is a very interesting border of ceramic pots, inserted into one another.

By the decorative borders of the garden can be attributed to the characteristic of the wild English garden receptions alteration zones and unmowed mown grass or prokoshennyh in meadow grass tracks have not yet received our distribution.

Look at your garden again, look at how the decorated border zone. Believe me – sometimes it is enough to make an edge of flower beds and tree trunks, weeding and zamulchirovat planting to the garden was transformed.