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Edging a border Conundrum
I extended my border recently.

Waiting for some of the plants to get established and fill the space (got some more ordered too). I am debating whether to define the border with some blocks/bricks. I was contemplating a DIY effort.
This No Dig Border video looks very doable:
https://youtu.be/sZc4Q2J4dQ4
Basically it is just laying a foot wide strip if cement mix along front of border, sitting the blocks in top and spraying with water to set the concrete.
Do you think it would look good in my case? Would it look better if I dug a trench first to have the blocks flush with the grass? What type of blocks would you recommend? I am quite keen to suppress weed/lawn spreading into the border so this plan would hopefully help with that. A whole brick length seems a bit too much if I placed them perpendicular to the border but I guess that would be a really effective barrier.
Finally, it is a curved border, How to manage especially the right hand side mini border which has really tight curves. Am I going to have to hire an angle grinder and start cutting bricks to shape?
Any ideas welcome, indeed is it worth doing at all, would it look better and what colour/type if brick? But any other input valuable.

Waiting for some of the plants to get established and fill the space (got some more ordered too). I am debating whether to define the border with some blocks/bricks. I was contemplating a DIY effort.
This No Dig Border video looks very doable:
https://youtu.be/sZc4Q2J4dQ4
Basically it is just laying a foot wide strip if cement mix along front of border, sitting the blocks in top and spraying with water to set the concrete.
Do you think it would look good in my case? Would it look better if I dug a trench first to have the blocks flush with the grass? What type of blocks would you recommend? I am quite keen to suppress weed/lawn spreading into the border so this plan would hopefully help with that. A whole brick length seems a bit too much if I placed them perpendicular to the border but I guess that would be a really effective barrier.
Finally, it is a curved border, How to manage especially the right hand side mini border which has really tight curves. Am I going to have to hire an angle grinder and start cutting bricks to shape?
Any ideas welcome, indeed is it worth doing at all, would it look better and what colour/type if brick? But any other input valuable.
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There isn't an easy answer I find because even on a paved path adjacent and slightly lower to the lawn, the edges still need neatening. I use a long handled lawn edger to do this.
Grass clippings won't root.
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham