Buy for your taste and pocket, not someone else's. The plastic you linked to is tasteless, but will last forever. If you have an old house and garden maybe reclaimed Victorian rope will suit.
We have a small soil retainer of bricks set against bricks which I rather like. The planting of gone-over snowdrops scarcely impresses but for most of the summer it hosts erigeron karvinskianus
Thanks for all the images. Am attempting to keep the costs under control and although wood will have to be replaced again at some point in the distant future, it is the most cost effective for the next 5/6 years. By which time, I will probably be old enough not to be concerned!!!! Or sell the property and it is someone else's problem.
Considering the idea above, of using dpm to protect the wood from direct contact with the soil. Since there is garden soil on one side, and soil/gravel on the other, seems reasonable to 'wrap the below ground half of the timber. But then there would be no way for water to escape.
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If you have an old house and garden maybe reclaimed Victorian rope will suit.