Best Black Garden & Landscaping Edging

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​The importance of garden edging can most often be underestimated. Edging borders and retaining edgings form the very structure and connectivity throughout a landscape design.

As well as structural elements, edging also needs to adhere to common design factors such as colour and texture. This can be no less the case with black garden edgings. Black is a colour tone much favoured within modern and traditional garden schemes.

​It can form bold contrasts as well as match in with natural stone and planting schemes. Here I will list and describe some of the best products and materials for installing black garden edging. 

​Brazilian black slate

​Brazilian black slate has become a favourite paving material for paths and patios. Although this slate is more of a charcoal grey it turns jet black when it is wet.

This gives it some extra interest during seasonal weather changes. Brazilian black slate now comes in a wide range of edging materials including copings and setts. These can make exceptional garden edging and borders to various landscaping installations.

​Brazillian black slate paving can also be cut into edging strips and installed for a variety of purposes. 
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​Black limestone

Like Brazilian black slate, black limestone has become a favoured paving material for modern style patios. Unlike lighter paving, black limestone can offset day to day dark staining from bird poop, dead vegetation and drink spills.

There are now many black limestone products including setts and cobble stones for garden edging. These can be very effective at contrasting green lawns and make amazing lawn or flower border edging.

​There is also black limestone walling available which can make extremely effective black retaining edging. 
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​Flexible black plastic garden edging

There are many flexible plastic black garden edgings currently on the market. These are marketed as lawn edging installations which reduce the need for manual cutting and edging

Although many of these edgings are effective, some cheaper products are not very robust. If going for plastic edgings make sure you go for robust and high quality products.

​As a general rule I think plastic should be kept to a minimum within landscaping installations. However flexible plastic edgings do have their place for smaller garden projects. 
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​Blue engineering bricks

Blue engineering bricks are robust and impermeable bricks used for a wide range of construction applications. These bricks are fired at extremely high temperatures to give them a glazed and impermeable surface.

This gives them a smooth look and strong colour tones. Although named ‘blue engineering bricks’ they actually are very dark navy blue making them look almost black. This makes them quite effective to be used as black landscape edging around patios and lawns.

​Engineering bricks have an impervious nature making them extremely weather resistant and durable. 
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​Core edge Flexible black edging

​Core edge is a well known brand of flexible steel landscape edging perfect for contemporary projects. This metal edging comes in a wide range of colours including weathered steel, brown and green.

The black edging is perfect for edging loose aggregates and edging lawns. These powder coated edgings slot together to form a continuous flexible edging perfect for curves. 

​These edgings have a reinforced ground spike which can be tapped into the ground or hunched with concrete. 
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​Charcoal block paving

​Block paving has long been associated as a paver for surfacing only driveways. Often however these pavers have proved themselves as very versatile garden edging.

Block paving is extremely hardwearing with a high load bearing capacity. This makes them perfect for edging gravel areas as well as creating mowing edges to lawns.

​Most block paving products and ranges come in a range of colours including charcoal. Charcoal block paving makes a very effective black edging for many landscape applications.  
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​Black porcelain

​Porcelain paving has now become one of the most popular paving products on the market. These pavers are effectively a large, robust tile, specifically manufactured for outdoor paving.

Generally it is lighter coloured porcelain which has become the most popular application. There are however many charcoal and black porcelain pavers and edging products. Some of these include black porcelain planks and cobble stones.

​Black porcelain slabs can also be cut into strips, setts and blocks to make black landscape edging. 
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​ Thank you for reading our article on the best black garden edging! Below I will link to some other articles you may find informative below. 

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