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LANDSCAPE EDGING RITE-EDGE<br />
The Benefits of Using<br />
<strong>Landscape</strong> <strong>Edging</strong><br />
• Shows off your flowers and shrubs<br />
• Gives you a permanent professional finish<br />
• Adds to the design of your garden<br />
• Provides a neat edge along drives and pathways<br />
• Compliments and contrasts surrounding<br />
buildings and the remainder of your landscape<br />
• Adapts to straight or curved areas with equal<br />
ease<br />
• Helps contain the mulch that you put around<br />
your flowers<br />
• Helps protect the base of young trees and<br />
garden ornaments, etc. from strimmers/mowers<br />
• Saves trimming and weeding time<br />
• Gives you a cleaner mowing and strimming line<br />
• Provides a root barrier to prevent invasive lawn<br />
grasses from entering flowerbeds<br />
• Adds value to your landscape without<br />
necessarily spending a lot of money<br />
• Saves you hours of back-breaking edging work<br />
and maintenance<br />
beauty, wood lacks durability and will<br />
eventually rot.<br />
• A more recent development in landscape<br />
edging, concrete curbing, is growing in<br />
popularity and is available in a variety of<br />
shapes, colours and patterns. This kind of<br />
edging requires a special curbing machine and<br />
a trained operator to install. While providing a<br />
permanent installation, concrete curbing can<br />
develop cracks and chips over time, and is not<br />
ideal for cold climates.<br />
• Brick and stone, while appealing to the eye,<br />
are more expensive forms of edging and, in<br />
effect, borders. They last a long time and have<br />
a pleasing aesthetic appearance, however,<br />
bricks and stones can eventually shift out of<br />
place and vegetation can also creep into the<br />
cracks. In a climate where frost heave occurs,<br />
cementing bricks and stones is not a suitable<br />
option.<br />
• Natural edging, also known as spading or<br />
trenching, means digging a line along the turf<br />
and flowerbed. With no physical barrier to<br />
define the two, you will need to redefine the<br />
edge each year or sometimes more frequently,<br />
causing the bed edge to migrate. This means<br />
hours of intensive labour and careful upkeep.<br />
When choosing the best edging there are many<br />
decisions to make, but choosing the right product<br />
the first time will save a lot of time and labour.<br />
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