6 Best Lawn edging for straight lines

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It is typical today to desire the perfect lawn with a clean layout and design. The contemporary style of garden has very much become a popular option.

Lawns should be functional and orderly. With this comes the need for lawns to have strong borders and straight edges.

This can be implemented by using an edging that lends itself to creating perfectly straight lines. Therefore, in this article I have identified and summarised 6 of the best lawn edgings for straight lines.

​I will explain why they are suitable and how they are typically installed.  

​Brick edging

Brick edging is a classic favourite when it comes to general landscaping and lawn edging.

Not only are bricks robust enough to withstand outdoor conditions they can easily blend into any design theme. There is a style and colour of brick to suit any type of lawn edging project.

Bricks can be laid lengthways or as a soldier course to make perfectly straight lawn edgings. This can be laid on a strong mortar bed to a tight and level string line. 
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​Paving edging

Another way of creating straight lawn edging is with conventional paving.

Natural stone paving can be cut into strips blocks or setts and laid as lawn edging. You will need to excavate long strips around your lawn and lay a compactable sub-base.

​Then you can lay your new edgings on a solid mortar base to a tight sting line. It is relatively easy to cut down paving using a grinder and a diamond grinding disc.
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​Block paving

Block paving is not always the first product people think of when it comes to lawn edging.

However, recent times have seen such a broad range of block paving products covering many styles. Some of which are particularly suited to lawn edging especially those with a 'cobble effect.'

Like paving and brick these can be laid upon a strong mortar bed on top of a compacted base.

​Block pavers are typically square making them easy to lay in straight lines. 
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​Pathway kerb edging

Pathway edging kerbs are long, thin edging kerbs about 1 metre in length and 150mm wide. These kerbs come in a wide variety of colours textures and styles.

The standard concrete kerbs are often implemented in public sector landscaping to edge borders and surfacing. 

However there are many more decorative versions of these edgings on the market.

​These kerbs are perfect for laying edgings to lawns in perfectly straight lines over a long distance. 
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​Treated 6x2 timber

One of the fasted and most affordable ways to install straight lawn edgings is with 6x2 timbers.

It is best to buy treated external grade timber for this which is normally sold at fencing stores. Lay them into linear trenches around the outside of your lawn to a tight string line.

​When they are perfectly straight they can be fixed to timber pegs driven into the ground. 
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​Timber sleeper edging

Sleepers are large sections of external grade timber traditionally used to base railway lines.

Sleepers have also become widely utilised in external landscaping especially for retaining structures. As they are long and straight these can also be used to create robust lawn edgings.

​Sleepers can be set in horizontally along the edge of lawns to create a continuous edge.
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​Thank you for reading our article on the best lawn edging for straight lines. I will link to some other articles you may find useful below. 

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