Unusual Edging Material for Landscaping

Wood Chips

• Separate your garden from your lawn by installing a path covered with wood chips between them, which creates an attractive accent on your property that is also useful for getting from place to place without trampling on plantings. By digging up the sod, laying down a layer of landscape fabric and covering it with wood chips, you can ensure that your wood chip path won't get overrun by grass and weeds that grow up through it. Wood chips are organic and can sometimes be obtained for free from your local municipality.

Bottles

• Create unusual and whimsical garden edging by collecting old bottles and making them useful. Drive the bottles top down into the ground in a straight line where you want your edging. Arrange them so that they are protruding from the ground with all of their bottoms at the same height, which creates a tiny, shiny wall that accents your landscaping plants and makes your design stand out from others.

Wood

• The possibilities of wooden landscape edging are limited only by your imagination. If you have a large number of tree branches left over from pruning, cut them into one-foot lengths and drive them into the ground in lines, creating edging made up of rows of protruding sticks. Cut a log into rounds that are a couple of inches thick and bury them halfway into the ground, making an edging of semicircular wooden plates protruding from the ground. The simplest wooden edging is made up of sticks or small logs laid down on the borders of your yard or garden.

Stones

• The options available to you with stones are as limitless as with wood. If you are fortunate enough to live near the ocean, collect a few ocean-rounded stones every day and build pretty edges on your property with them. If you live in a place with many flat stones, turn them on edge to create small, thin walls that can serve as edging and as low retaining walls. Some large stones have a grain that will allow you to split them with a hammer and chisel, creating flat, mirror-imaged pairs of stones that can be worked into your landscaping theme.