How to give your garden a winning landscape edge

14 June 2022

The priority for many gardeners is how to beautify their garden with carefully selected plants and flowers and how to keep them looking best throughout the growing season. Planting, pruning, and lawn maintenance are essential to get the most year-round pleasure from your outdoor space.

Garden borders and beds are the most labour-intensive elements of a garden, and if deprived of regular attention they can look messy making an otherwise flawless garden, appear uncared for. It is the clarity of the borders and beds that give a garden the winning landscape edge.

What’s the difference between a garden bed and border?

Borders are landscape dividers and used to separate different components of the garden such as the lawn from paths, walls, fences, or steps. By contrast, garden beds are stand alone and an island (or series of islands) in a lawn, in a corner of the garden or around a tree.

Well-defined garden edging transforms a garden, swiftly elevating the aesthetics from good to great. This is why gardeners commit so much time and energy to edging their lawns and garden borders, to define the separate sections.

What is the best landscape edging?

There are a host of low maintenance options to choose from to use as garden edging:

· Bricks

· Timber

· Plastic

· Slabs

However, they do not provide a long terms solution for a low maintenance border. Even if you have paid a premium for a high-quality professional garden edging installation, over time bricks and slabs become uneven and plants have the notorious capacity for growing through cracks. Timber degrades overtime, and plastic becomes brittle and snaps, leaving potentially painful sharp edges.

Using metal landscape edging is a gardening hack, a shortcut to avoid having to repeat the strenuous task of maintaining immaculate borders. Steel is the best material for landscape edging; it’s maintenance free, weather resistant and tough, yet flexible. EverEdge provides two steel edging solutions for New Zealand gardens:

· EverEdge Classic: a galvanised and powder coated steel edging that comes in brown or black landscape edging.

· EverEdge Cor-Ten: a steel garden edging that spectacularly weathers naturally.

No matter the shape of the border you are developing, EverEdge steel landscape edging is versatile. The flexibility of the edging strips means you can easily create edging to follow any contour of garden border, path or lawn. You also have the option to install metal tree ring edging to make your favourite trees even more of a feature in your garden.

How easy is it to install steel edging?

Steel edging is easy to install. All EverEdge products are sold with a comprehensive installation guide, click here to watch a short film that explains the process. As with all DIY projects, the most time-consuming part of installing steel edging in your garden is the preparation.

If you would like to learn more about how EverEdge metal landscape edging can be used in your garden, contact us today. Whether you need guidance to help you decide to go for the Classic EverEdge or Corten steel edging, or advice on the size of metal tree ring edging you need, drop us a line or call 021 925 389.

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Winter lawn care: preparing your lawn and edges for a strong spring comeback

30 July 2025

Winter might give you a break from summer’s relentless mowing schedule, but it’s no time to forget about your lawn. While grass growth noticeably slows in the cooler temperatures, your lawn still needs some attention through the colder months. With just a little care now, you’ll be rewarded with a healthier, more resilient lawn that requires less maintenance and attention come spring – and at the heart of a healthy lawn is EverEdge garden edging . Mow smart Whereas growth warm-season varieties of grasses like kikuyu, couch, and buffalo slow, cool-season grasses such as perennial rye, fescue, and Kentucky blue grass remain active through winter and benefit from regular mowing. Every 3–4 weeks should do the trick, depending on growth. Keep the mower height up a little higher than you usually would set it to allows for a thicker leaf area to absorb more light and helps the lawn stay robust. Mow on a dry day and use a catcher to reduce fungal issues. Sharpen mower blades and clean them between cuts to prevent disease spread - healthy grass starts with clean tools. Light and airflow matter Low winter sun and a change to trees can put your lawn under stress. Your lawn needs light to be able to photosynthesise so where necessary, prune overhanging branches to allow more light through to vulnerable areas of lawn. Regularly raking leaves prevents the blanket of tree debris smothering the lawn and helps reduce the risk of disease. Moss and fungal issues thrive in damp, low-light conditions, so improving air and light circulation is key. Feed roots, not leaves Feeding your lawn in winter isn’t essential, but it can be beneficial - particularly in warmer regions or for cool-season grasses. But it’s important to choose a formula that supports root development and soil biology – this helps to improve resistance to stress and fungal issues.