Borders are not only essential for delimiting lawns and beds in order to properly organize gardens, but also contribute to improving the aesthetics of outdoor spaces. The ideas abound and the possibilities are endless. Find ideas here.
Do not miss these few DIY ideas to discover on Le Monde, if you are in the middle of work in your garden. In reality, the ideal would be to install the borders as soon as the garden is laid out, especially if you are faced with still virgin spaces that can be adjusted at will. Moreover, for a harmonious result, you can absolutely seek advice from a landscape architect.
Are your flowerbeds and flowerbeds already established? Feel free to install borders to redefine new areas or replace old ones. And if you're good at DIY, you can make them yourself. It may be the perfect time to finally develop the vegetable patch you have wanted for a long time. For this, you will only need wooden planks, four L-brackets. Not to mention bolts, nuts and washers to connect the barriers together. Also, make sure you have a drill and handsaw handy.
To be recovered free of charge from trade companies or construction sites, pallets are ideal for this purpose. Otherwise, if you are not interested in recycled materials, you can easily find boards intended for this purpose on the market. And among the wood species to choose from, larch will be preferred due to its resistance to external aggressions, but especially Douglas.
And still with wood, you can also simply make the boundaries with logs. These borders can be painted and decorated as desired depending on the general style or theme of the garden. Be careful though, because subject to humidity and climatic vagaries, this type of border will end up rotting one day. Sooner or later, their replacement will therefore be necessary, unless you opt for exotic species, but beware, wenge, mahogany, ipe, teak and others are indeed rot-proof, but are expensive.
As an alternative, the trellis is also very successful. Hazel, bamboo, rattan, wicker… Here the material available to you is very diverse. And still in line with natural materials, there are also stones. Their only downside is their high price, unless you recover them following a demolition for example. Nevertheless, the result obtained is well worth the detour.
Do you prefer to bet on durable and robust? To match with driveways or slabs, concrete fences are very easy to put in place and do not require much maintenance. The aesthetic result is, on the other hand, debatable… Bricks are resistant and prettier. They allow a wide range of original or fanciful shapes and figures.
And how not to talk about zinc? Here is also another expensive material, but which does not lack elegance for edging paths and beds.
Finally, the cheapest on the market are the plastic or PVC borders, but they age quite badly due to frosts and torrid sunshine. If pieces remain in the ground when they crumble, they pollute the soil for hundreds of years because the plastic material is not biodegradable.
