I've another question and would welcome some creative ideas if anyone has some !
I'm redoing my garden from scratch and will be planting out frost hardy tropical plants and plants that aren't tropical but look tropical and that don't grow too tall . Think palms, ferns, grasses interspered with brightly coloured seasonal bedding plants and bulbs etc.
My garden furniture is a sort of rich mahogany. I am painting the wooden fencing white. My accent colour is rich darkish blue, which is found on my garden table parasol and seat cushions plus various pots.
I am trying to figure out what now to choose for edging my raised flower beds. Log roll springs to mind, I would stain it to match the furniture, but it seems to get some bad press. I obviously want something that will take the pressure of 2 CURVED flower beds which will each be around 20 foot long and 3 foot wide in the middle (I am doing half moons on each side of the garden so the beginnin and end parts are narrower than the middle)
I'm just wondering if log roll will tie in? I'm not interested in brick or concrete or sleepers- I need something that can work with the curved design.
I was planning to place decorative pebbles on top of the beds by the way, probably the medium sized kind which come in a mixture of light natural tones)
The area where my table will be at the rear of the garden will be covered with dark blue slate chippings to set off the blue in the pots, furnishings an flowers.
So what would YOU go for where edging is concerned?!
ps) I should mention that whatever gets put in, I will be doing it myself, so it must not involve cement !
I'm redoing my garden from scratch and will be planting out frost hardy tropical plants and plants that aren't tropical but look tropical and that don't grow too tall . Think palms, ferns, grasses interspered with brightly coloured seasonal bedding plants and bulbs etc.
My garden furniture is a sort of rich mahogany. I am painting the wooden fencing white. My accent colour is rich darkish blue, which is found on my garden table parasol and seat cushions plus various pots.
I am trying to figure out what now to choose for edging my raised flower beds. Log roll springs to mind, I would stain it to match the furniture, but it seems to get some bad press. I obviously want something that will take the pressure of 2 CURVED flower beds which will each be around 20 foot long and 3 foot wide in the middle (I am doing half moons on each side of the garden so the beginnin and end parts are narrower than the middle)
I'm just wondering if log roll will tie in? I'm not interested in brick or concrete or sleepers- I need something that can work with the curved design.
I was planning to place decorative pebbles on top of the beds by the way, probably the medium sized kind which come in a mixture of light natural tones)
The area where my table will be at the rear of the garden will be covered with dark blue slate chippings to set off the blue in the pots, furnishings an flowers.
So what would YOU go for where edging is concerned?!
ps) I should mention that whatever gets put in, I will be doing it myself, so it must not involve cement !