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Is lawn edging popular?

MatthiasMatthias Posts: 2
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Hello everyone.

I am a student Product Developer from Denmark, and I am doing a project at the university which involves lawn edging solutions.

My question is:

Are products like Smartedge, Everedge and every other lawn edging product in plastic or metal popular?
You people are loyal users of this forum and gardening enthusiasts, and do you see any consensus or tendency to what the general thoughts are about these products? Let me know everthing. image

I really hope some of you will help me. Thanks.

Matthias Andersen

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  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    I think the neatest and most aesthetically pleasing edge is bare soil - a nice crisp vertical edge to the lawn and a gap of an inch or so to the (slightly lower) path.

    Or entirely natural - let it do what it will, if that suits the garden.  But I agree with Verdun - they're naff, and they cost money, which neither of my favoured methods do!

  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    I use Smartedge on both of my lawns. It does not look 'naff' - in fact it is virtually undetectable from an edge without it. I like it because it keeps the edge neat and sharp all year round without having to recut them every year. Thumbs up from me. An excellent product.
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    not for me thanksimage

    I don't like the sharp cut-offs and the cliff edge and the gap between one thing and another. I like my garden to look free and generous with a flow between one thing and another



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • cornellycornelly Posts: 970

    nothing nicer than a well mown and edged lawn, I use a edging clippers, not electric clippers, good old fashioned hand clippers, at pathways I have a edging spade which is curved at the bottom.

  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Hello , I have part of the lawn edged with a single row of block paving bricks and some others parts with gravel because I like the look of theses products image

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,066

    We have sunk railway sleepers to lawn height to serve as a mowing strip around half of our main lawn.  It was much more but then I cut out a new bed in the lawn.....    This edge is gradually being finished with granite paving sets taken form the former cowsheds.  

    I don't have the time or inclination to edge with a half moon blade and I don't like any other lawn edging product I've ever seen apart form bricks or stones laid as a mowing strip with border plants flopping over to soften the effect.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,481
    I find clipping the edges therapeutic also,in some places, I like to let the grass/lawn weeds seep onto the path. I really don't like straight edges. I don't particularly like things too neat.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066

    I change the design of my lawn too often to use permenant edges.

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Chrissy the gardenerChrissy the gardener Posts: 1,072

    I think they are naff as well,I've yet to see them looking good.

     

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