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Suggestions on tall flowerbed curbing
Posted on 3/30/25 at 7:20 pm
Posted on 3/30/25 at 7:20 pm
Our house is on a slope and this is what I’m currently dealing with. We recently bought this place and apparently the old lady that had it before us loved plants and had all kinds of things planted. Problem is that she passed away a couple of years ago and we bought it from her kids. They let the place go during those two years. I’m so ignorant when it comes to flower beds or anything green. I’m just looking for help. Or where to even start. I don’t want to pay an ungodly amount to a landscaper. But I do want to completely redo the flower beds and get the house looking nice. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Also if anyone has any books, YouTube channels, or websites that I can try to learn about this would also be appreciated.
This post was edited on 3/30/25 at 7:24 pm
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Posted on 3/30/25 at 7:52 pm to CrawfishElvis
my goodness 
ok i'm the guy who uses tree limbs/logs to curb beds so take this with a grain of salt but there is an easy way, a few actually.
1) go get a flat of giant blue liriope, plant them at the border close together and backfill behind them. in a few months you will have a solid natural border that will be about 12" high
2) go to the depot and get some of these LINK and some treated 2x6's, you can stack them 2 high in that block
3) go to the depot and get 4x4 landscape timbers, stack them two or three high and drill a hole thru them for a short piece of rebar
ok i'm the guy who uses tree limbs/logs to curb beds so take this with a grain of salt but there is an easy way, a few actually.
1) go get a flat of giant blue liriope, plant them at the border close together and backfill behind them. in a few months you will have a solid natural border that will be about 12" high
2) go to the depot and get some of these LINK and some treated 2x6's, you can stack them 2 high in that block
3) go to the depot and get 4x4 landscape timbers, stack them two or three high and drill a hole thru them for a short piece of rebar
Posted on 3/30/25 at 10:10 pm to cgrand
Not a huge fan of putting wood close to the house. It will eventually rot and attract termites
Posted on 3/31/25 at 5:50 am to crewdepoo
yes I suppose that is a concern…OP another thing you could do is call a brick mason to come over and run a nice looking brick or CMU border. You may have enough brick/block there already to do it
Easiest solution though is the liriope border
Easiest solution though is the liriope border
Posted on 3/31/25 at 6:19 am to CrawfishElvis
Chop Rock would be an easy fix
Posted on 3/31/25 at 7:44 am to CrawfishElvis
Not sure how big your beds are, but I think an easy solution might be putting the retaining wall stone in front of these CMU blocks and then either removing the blocks or making the wall a little higher and filling over the CMU blocks. Won't be cheap though.
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