Garden border: Prepare your gardens and terraces

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To create a garden and its paths in an optimal way, the garden border is an essential element to create a border between two environments. This border can be a small wall of vegetation, which can vary according to different factors.

The exposure to the sun, the prevailing winds, the type of soil of the ground and the visual effect that one wishes to reach are all parameters from which one must take into account.

A garden border with red bricks

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Another type of border that will add cachet to your garden at little cost will be the wood edge. To build oneself or to buy modules, you will find all kinds of models in several colors, or just coated with protective varnish that you can paint in shades at your convenience.

A border with slate blades

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Another possibility of garden surround in natural materials is to braid a border, and to raise it to the height you want. You can use wicker, which comes from the willow, or all kinds of branches, hazel being particularly adapted to braiding thanks to its flexibility. It is enough to plant a branch of larger diameter and cut in point every 50 cm approximately, and then to pass in front and behind each vertical element, adding to each passage one row on top of the other.

Bamboo is as good as a garden border

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It is also possible to build a brick border, without having to cement them; you simply bury the base of the brick laid obliquely about 5 to 10 cm, depending on the dimensions of your bricks. Finally, you can build a stone, slate, railroad log border … If you decide to plant slate blades, also bury them about ten centimeters, to make sure you their stability. All materials are possible to build a border, it is the style of the rest of the garden that should determine which one is best. Let these pictures inspire you.

Bottles of wine serve as a border

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Another example with bottles

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Elegant garden border

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Original red bricks border

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Border decorated with wood

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Small bamboo garden border

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Wicker branches as a fence

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A garden with concrete slabs

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Rustic wood delimit the basins

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A wooden beam and stones as a border

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Decorative tiles for tiles

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Stone slabs planted as original border

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