Natural beauty is always nice to look at, especially when you decorate. This is true for your backyard too. Garden edging helps show off the edges of your garden, making it look really good. Adding borders or fences makes parts of your garden stand out. This makes them easy to see for guests or people walking by. How do natural beauty and garden edging work together? That’s 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.
Choosing Pebbles for Your Garden Edging
There are different kinds of pebbles you can choose from:
Granite pebbles
These pebbles are usually red and pink. They come in different shades of these colors.
Marble pebbles
If you want something modern and fancy, marble pebbles are a great choice. They come in colors like brown, black, white, pink, and yellow. Isn’t that a cool mix of colors?
River Rock Pebbles
These pebbles are smooth and round, often found in riverbeds. They come in a variety of colors, and are perfect for a rustic look.
Limestone pebbles
These pebbles look the most natural and are quite common. They feel more real and earthy. Even though they look a bit like marble pebbles, they feel different. Limestone pebbles come in black, white, tan, and brown.
Slate Pebbles
Slate pebbles have a flat and smooth texture with colors ranging from gray to blue to purple. They provide a sophisticated and elegant look to garden borders.
Lava Rock Pebbles
These pebbles are lightweight and porous, usually red or black. Lava rock pebbles are great for adding texture and a dramatic effect to your garden edging.
But color isn’t the only thing to think about. You should also think about how the pebbles feel and their shapes. You can find pebbles that are flat, oval, rough, and round. Mixing these shapes and sizes can make your garden look more interesting. This is called making a pebble mosaic.
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 Make Pebble Garden Edging?
- First, make sure you have enough space in your garden for the pebbles.
- If necessary, level the ground.
- Measure your plant bed to see if the pebbles will fit. You need to get the right size, so you don’t buy too few pebbles.
- After you know how much space you need, clear the area by pulling out weeds and grass. The edges need to be smooth to make your garden look nice.
- Wear safety gloves to keep your hands safe. Removing roots, especially from flowers under the pebbles, is important so flowers don’t grow between the pebbles and mess up the edges.
- Place a weed mat or landscape fabric. Use landscape pins or garden staples to secure the fabric to the ground. Put it down to create a smooth base so nothing grows under the pebbles.
- It’s also helpful to add a thin layer of gravel over the weed barrier to improve drainage and stability.
- Place the pebbles. Make sure they are evenly distributed and fill any gaps to create a uniform look.
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.
Maintenance Tips and Design Ideas For a Perfect Pebble Edging
Maintenance isn’t that hard. First of all, use a garden hose to wash off dirt and debris from the pebbles. Don’t forget to check for weeds regularly and remove them promptly. That is pretty much it.
As you can see from the pictures, designing is easy too. Create patterns with different colored and shaped pebbles. You can go for a rainbow effect or choose a monochrome pallete. Mimic the look of a natural riverbed or add shells with driftwood pieces to create a beach-inspired garden edge. Wavy or curved lines are easy to create with pebbles, so use that for your advantage!