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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Man installing edging along a lawn path in a garden.

The gardener’s guide to avoid garden edging mistakes

by Simon Mullinger • 25 August 2025

A well-designed garden isn’t just about the plants you choose; it’s the finishing touches that make all the difference. Garden edging frames your beds, pathways, and lawns, creating a clean, structured look while keeping soil, mulch, and grass exactly where they should be. But despite its time-saving capabilities, small mistakes during planning or installation can leave you with an untidy or high-maintenance garden – exactly what you didn’t sign up for. As a supplier of the best high-quality steel landscape edging products in New Zealand , EverEdge has heard it all – from shallow installs that allow grass to creep back in, to cracked or warped materials that ruin a carefully designed border. To help you get it right the first time, here are the top three garden edging mistakes and how you can avoid them. 1. Choosing the wrong edging material One of the most common mistakes is selecting edging that doesn’t stand the test of time. Plastic and timber edging might look appealing initially, but they deteriorate quickly over time, accelerated by harsh weather. Plastic warps under the sun, while timber is prone to rotting and shifting. Both often require replacement within just a few seasons. Even if you opt for the more expensive concrete garden edging it is vulnerable to ground movement and freeze-thaw cycles. By contrast, metal landscape edging, particularly steel garden edging, offers durability, flexibility, and a clean aesthetic. It can be shaped into sweeping curves or sharp angles without cracking, and it resists corrosion for decades. EverEdge products are designed for professional results and are trusted by landscapers across New Zealand for everything from garden bed edging and metal tree ring edging to driveway edging. Choosing a long-lasting material from the outset saves you time, money, and endless frustration down the line. 2. Installing at the wrong depth Even the best edging material won’t perform if it’s not installed correctly . A frequent error is laying edging too shallow. This allows mulch and soil to spill over and gives grass and weeds the perfect opportunity to creep back into your beds. Too deep, on the other hand, and the edging becomes buried, disappearing from sight and failing to give that crisp separation between lawn and border.