Ideas for a Round Concrete Border for a Landscape

Lighting

• You can create areas in your concrete molds where landscape lighting can be installed to accent the trees in your front yard or the garden in your backyard. Prior to pouring your concrete, put placeholders in the mold either on the top or along the sides that are large enough to install landscape lighting fixtures. Consult with a concrete expert to make sure the openings you are creating will not diminish the strength of your concrete border. When put into a concrete circular border, installed landscape lights can be effective decorative elements.

Stamped and Stained

• Concrete can be stamped and stained to look like marble, brick or even tile. When you create a round concrete landscape border, you can add a bit of mystery to it by stamping and staining it to resemble brick. Your border will look like it was made using curved bricks and can be used as a good conversation piece.

Keep Out the Grass

• One of the advantages that poured concrete circular landscape borders have over real brick, tile or wood borders is that grass cannot grow in and around the border, making it difficult to maintain. Grass will grow in any small area, and the space between bricks or concrete blocks can become a problem to keep clean. That is why a circular concrete edge is the best solution in areas where grass growth is prominent. You can use blocks for landscaping inside gardens where the grass has been turned over, or along areas where the grass has been removed. But to make long-term maintenance easier in your landscaping, used circular concrete borders in areas where grass grows.

Colored Stones

• To add some color to your circular concrete landscape border, put small colored stones into your concrete mix. You can also add crystals, toy marbles and sparkling quartz stones. As your concrete border settles, you can add other decorative elements such as soda pop bottle caps, small pieces of tree bark or anything else that you feel would add to the look.