Natural beauty is always appreciated no matter what you choose to decorate. This rule applies to your stunning backyard as well. Garden edging is what makes the borders of your garden shine – it brings every element of your front yard to the limelight. Adding borders or fences makes parts of your garden stand out, making them noticeable to all of your house guests or passers-by. But how do natural beauty and garden edging come together? That is where pebble garden edging comes in.
Beige pebbles, dark mulch and green grass create a stylish, eye-catchy and contrasting look in the garden.
Dark mulch and colorful pebbles look cool together, and green topiaries are a neat and elegant addition to the garden bed.
A creatively curved garden bed with bright blooms, greenery and succulents is lined up with bold pebbles that bring even more color to the space.
A small curved features with decorative pebbles attached right to the side is aunique idea to keep each stone in place.
A dry river bed like this one will be a unique gardne border that no one expected to be used with a flower bed.
Grey pebbles highlight each plant and contrast the color of the blooms creating a bold decoration in the green lawn.
A modern pavement path with grey pebble edging and green lawn create a polished modern look with plenty of texture.
Large rocks and pebbles are placed on the side of the flower bed looking all-natural as if it's not a border but a rock garden.
Placing pavements in grey pebbles will give your walkway a stylish and modern look, and white gravel will create a lot of eye-catchiness.
Line up your walkway with grey pebbles to reduce soil erosion and provide more texture in hardscaping.
How Do You Choose The Pebbles For Pebble Edging?
There are various types of pebbles to choose from.
Granite pebbles
These are usually red and pink and have varying shades of these two colors.
Marble pebbles
If you’re someone who’s looking for more fancy pebbles with a sophisticated and elegant touch, then marble pebbles are for you. Their range of colors includes brown, black, white, pink and yellow. An odd mix, don’t you think?
Limestone pebbles
These are the more natural pebbles that you see everywhere. They have a far more authentic and down-to-earth aura. They might seem similar to marble pebbles but they have a stark contrast in terms of texture and feel. You’ll find black, white, tan and brown limestone pebbles.
But the color isn’t the only metric via which you should try and figure out which pebbles are the best fit for your backyard. Get the feel and shape of your pebbles – flat, elliptical, rough and round are all different textures. Have a mix and match of all of these shapes and sizes to bring variety to your plant bed. This process is called creating a pebble mosaic, and you’ll have loads of fun experimenting with the shapes and shades.
Colorful large pebbles become part of the decor in the space, not just a regular garden border, and the bold color is intended.
Rocks and pebbles along the border bring more interest to the space, reduce soil erosion and create a rock garden feel.
A curved edge with pebbles and rocks adds interest to the modern garden bed with no blooms.
A small curved flower bed is accented with a border of pebbles and lights, and such decor will add curb appeal to your house.
A stylish and wide pebble edge includes some hidden lights and brings more texture to the space at the same time.
Light-colored pavements placed in dark gravel and a pebble garden edge for a bold modern look with plenty of style.
A stone path is lined up with a long flower bed completely covered with grasses.
Place your pavements into pebbles and add grasses along to create an ultra-modern look.
Bold blooms and a wide border of colorful pebbles that are added to boost the look of the flower bed and bring a natural touch.
A long curved pebble edge here defines the flower bed, and lamps let us see the whole landscape even at night.
Define the border of your lawn or the transition from the path to the lawn with pebbles, metal and small outdoor lamps.
Bring a natural feel to the space using large rocks and pebbles that match in color.
Bold garden border done with pebbles and blue muscari to boost the curb appeal and make the space wow.
Pebbles and rocks along the garden bed make it look catchier and bolder adding structure, besides, they reduce erosion.
Pebbles, rocks, gazing balls add interest to the garden bed that features only ornamental grasses.
How To Do Pebble Garden Edging?
Clear up the necessary space for your garden. You need to make sure your garden has sufficient space to place pebbles around the edges.
Measure the size of your plant bed and see if your pebbles take up too much. You must have the correct proportions and dimensions – otherwise, you’ll end up buying fewer pebbles than you thought you needed.
Once you’re done deciding the amount of space necessary for your plant bed and the garden edging, clear up the necessary space. How do you do that? By plucking out weeds and unwanted grass from the area. Edges need a smooth finish and without that, the highlights necessary for polishing your plant bed are not in full view.
Make sure you’re wearing safety gloves and proper cautionary equipment to keep yourself safe. Taking out roots, especially from flowers growing beneath the pebbled area, is crucial. This is so that the flowers don’t grow between the pebbles and ruin the edges.
If you’re worried you will mess up the whole process, one pro tip is to get a weed mat or a landscape fabric and lay it down. This guarantees a smooth base of soil or grass or pavement so that nothing grows underneath the pebbles.
The flower bed is lined up with so many pebbles that they seem a dry river bed.
A bold garden edge with pebbles and succulents seems to be not just an edge but part of the decor here.
Plant some greenery or topiaries inside the pebble border to make it look even cooler.
Though the stream is placed in metal, the pebbles with greenery along it give it a more natural look. Such a combo is perfect for a modern garden.
A flower bed with bold blooms and pebbles placed delicately in one layer not to distract attention from the blooms and to add interest.
A sophisticated garden bed with greenery, blooms and beige pebble edge, with trees and a bird bath is classics.
A long flower bed lined up with grey pebbles will make your front or backyard more eye-catching adding life to the facade.
A tier of pebbles looks nice with grasses and groundcovers that are the next tier, a great combo for a garden.
Using both smaller pebbles and larger stones, you can achieve a more natural and less polished look.
Small grey pebbles are perhaps the most natural flower bed edge that I have ever seen, they match both the dark mulch and the green lawn.
A tall beige pebble edge looks structurized, the fact that they are raised makes them lookmore polished.
Dark pavers, white pebbles and grasses are a perfect modern outdoor combo that always works and requires low maintenance.
White pebbles and rocks paired with grasses and blooms create an Alpine garden here.
Wooden deck, white pebbles and green grass plus a metal border to keep the pebbles in place.