Edging Rings & Edging Strips

Edging is used to define a boundary between grass, borders or paths. It provides a neat edge that can be mown up to or a clear definition between lawn or border and pathway. Edging can be made from almost any building material: bricks, tiles; slates or pebbles bedded into concrete but for ease and speed of installation, metal edging strips are the most easily available, cost effective and easy to install.

Keeping grass edges neat requires the same tools as installing lawn edging. Redefine the edges of the lawn with a half-moon edging tool; use a plank for straight lines and a hose to define curves or circles.

Make a neat edge to the border or lawn using a half-moon edging tool to a depth of 10cms. The edging strips can be installed by hand and secured with discreet metals pegs. The strips come in 200cm lengths which makes them easy to handle and they can be bent by hand to create curves.

Garden plant rings are simple rings made of the same steel as the edging strips and curved into either a welded ring (which can be used directly on the ground to make a specimen bed) or an open ring (ideal for making a bed around an established tree). We use them in our orchard, around our fruit trees to keep them free of weeds and well-watered. They are underplanted with bulbs which flower just before the blossom comes out – a perfect pairing.

Both the edging strips and the garden plant rings are made of 3mm thick metal strips or, for more heavy duty, 5mm metal strips and the strips are either 10cm or 15cm high. They come in standard 200cm lengths which can be bolted together and secured into the ground with steel pegs making them quick and easy to install and a practical solution to defining a border, lawn or pathway.