"barbara hamilton" wrote in message
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I am fairly new to gardening but really enjoy it - the problem is that I
have been attempting to make a really attractive flower bed in my yard and
wanted an edge to give it a nice formal look (plus one side of it is close
to the driveway and slopes down so I want to ensure the soil doesn't wash
away). The problem is that I cannot seem to find an edging product that
is
easy to install and that doesn't look cheap or tacky. Any suggestions?

I gave up on edging long ago. Couldn't find anything affordable that I
liked, and the one type of edging I thought I could live with caused a
drainage problem. What someone suggested I use is hardwood mulch, which
doesn't wash away the way pine bark mulch does. This really has done the
trick for me. We also generally dig a bit of a trench between the
drive/sidewalk and the flower bed to give the mulch a barrier of sorts.
Anyhoo, worked for us. Hope this helps! :-)