Tuscan garden edging – 8 Edgings for Tuscan gardens

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Tuscan gardens have become world famous for their rustic beauty and simplistic charm.  Many Tuscan gardens seem to combine typical elements of both Mediterranean and French garden design.

These merge with a classical, Italian style and a flair for good design. This combination makes Tuscan gardens some of the most sought after and seductive in the world!

However, behind all these influences lie landscapes of practicality with a focus upon production and simplicity. Tuscan gardens are often rural interpretations of traditional and classical styles.

​Consequently, edging within Tuscan gardens plays an important role in defining spaces and retaining planting borders. In this article I list and summarise 8 garden edgings ideal for Tuscan gardens.

​Red brick

Red brick with terracotta tones have always been utilised within the gardens of Tuscany.

Fired clay materials such as bricks and pots have always been used locally within this region. Therefore, red bricks are a very effective and fitting edging material for Tuscan gardens.

​The best bricks are those with deep red tones with rustic imperfections and earthy colour variations. I find bricks such as Old Stocks, Ashdowns and Chaileys ideal edging for Tuscan landscaping. 
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​Dry stone walling

​Dry stone walling is an extremely decorative form of construction typical of rural rocky regions. This type of natural stone walling is regularly found across rural Tuscany.

​Agricultural boundaries and buildings themselves are often made with natural stone. This makes dry stone walling an effective edging or low wall edging for Tuscan styled gardens. 

​Flexible metal edging

Flexible metal edging is a modern type of landscape edging of which popularity has exploded in recent years.

Although far from traditional landscape edging it can be effective for contemporary interpretations of the Tuscan style.

​This is especially so for edging gravel surfaces and borders to formal hedging. This edging is also very effective for edging organic shapes and curves. 

​Natural stone setts

Natural stones setts have always been used within traditional European landscaping as a paving material.

These robust cubes of stone are both decorate and durable making them perfect for landscaping applications. Both granite setts and sandstone setts are both particularly effective for Tuscan gardens.

​These setts are effective at creating decorative borders to paving and robust edgings to planting borders. 
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​Terracotta rope to edging

​Tuscan gardens regularly display decorative features in theme with classical and historical architecture.

Consequently decorative edgings with ornate patterning are always effective. This is especially so if they also come in terracotta which accentuates the Tuscan garden aesthetic.

​These terracotta rope edgings are perfect for edging paths and gravel areas within Tuscan gardens. 
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​Rustic kerb edgings

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Kerb edgings are large and robust edging kerbs typically made for driveway and landscaping applications.

These kerbs are normally laid to create raised steps, border edgings and accommodate level changes.

​This Rustic kerb edging block from Marshals greatly compliments the Tuscan style. It is perfect for forming raised beds and retaining edgings to paving and planting beds. 

​Sandstone blocks

Sandstone blocks are a natural stone walling product which is typically incorporated into Indian sandstone, paving, projects.

These blocks are commonly sourced from the same bedrock as Indian sandstone quarries. This gives them exciting colour variations and radiant tones.

​Their rustic appear and rough texture makes them the perfect material to form rustic Tuscan garden edging. 

​Rocks

A typical feature of the countryside of Tuscany is medieval towns which pierce the landscape from rocky outcrops.

Rocks are familiar element throughout the landscape and a historic building material. This makes laying rocks and small boulders for garden edging an exciting idea.

​Not only will it serve as a functional element but also become a focal point within its own right. 
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