Your landscaping at your home is an investment, and to ensure you protect that investment, you need to invest in border and edging stones. With this simple and affordable addition, you won’t just enhance the beauty of your landscaping—you will also be providing it with elements that will help it thrive. Here are five ways—from the landscaping, hardscaping and masonry experts at Norristown Brick—that border and edging stones will benefit your home’s outdoor space!
Give Your Landscaping Definition
Just like rugs help define a space inside of your home, border and edging stones are the best way to define your landscaping space. Whether you incorporate straight edging stones or curved border stones, using these around landscaping beds will enhance the look of your gardening and transform your space.
Secure Beds of Bushes and Flowers
When topsoil, dirt or mulch gets wet—which happens often in the Northeast—it loosens up and can move around, negatively impacting flowers, bushes and shrubs. Fortunately, border and edging stones don’t just look beautiful—they’re also functional and will keep spoil, dirt and mulch intact, so your garden beds will always look flawless. Plus, these elements will also help contain plant roots, so that they only grow where you want them to.
Create a Clean Look in Your Backyard and Front Yard
Because border and edging stones can be used to create straight lines or other shapes, adding them into landscaping is a quick and easy way to achieve a clean, organized look. Additionally, these two items will also elevate the look of any garden bed—since these stones are typically neutral in color, their downplayed hue brightens up the look of any flower or bush that is surrounding.
Make Maintaining Landscaping Easier
Landscape maintenance is the only way to keep it looking healthy and beautiful, but it can be a pain for homeowners: mowing the lawn is more difficult, weeding is trickier, fertilizing is harder and irrigation is more complex. Luckily, this can all be resolved by simply adding border and edging stones to your landscaping. With these two elements, protecting flowers when you mow the lawn and weed, and preventing the lawn from being overwatered will be easier than ever.
Complete the Look of Your Driveway and Walkways
Border and edging stones don’t just complete the look of your landscaping—they also complete the look of your driveway and walkways. If your driveway is solely black pavement, its look will be embellished by border and edging stones; if your driveway has natural gravel, stones or rocks incorporate into it, border and edging stones will contain them. When it comes to the walkways that surround your home, adding border and edging stones won’t just make them look prettier—they will also enhance their safety by eliminating any drop off from the walkway to the landscaping.
Are you ready to transform your outdoor space and keep your landscaping better protected? Stop by Norristown Brick to see our on-site border and edging stone displays, or give us a call today to schedule an appointment!
