Copper garden edging

Metal landscape edging is the little black dress of a garden: elegant, strong yet understated, tailored and timeless. A long-time design secret of professional landscapers, metal has edged its way into the amateur home garden to offer a clean-cut and practical solution to keep plants and materials in place.

This small backyard has a secret: Virtually every plant in it can be put on your plate or in a vase. Get ideas for how to replicate it.

Merry Christmas, friends! Welcome! This is my 17th year (!) sharing our home(s) at Christmas with my friends on the internet. If anyone had told me in the years prior that this would be a thing I could do I wouldn't have believed it, but for sure would've been thrilled. It's been such a delight to have found so many kindred spirits who share a love of creating a home in every season.

copper planters, cedar fencing on city terrace

Gravel path with brick edging in The Baroque garden at RHS Tatton Park Flower ... Image:1335036 - Stock photo from GAP Gardens, garden & plant photography

Shortly after I posted the pictures of the “lust-worthy” metal planters last week I discovered this Cor-ten masterpiece… Wow. I would have loved to hear the conversations the neighbors were having while this one was going up. I love it, but I don’t imagine it’s everyone’s cup-of-tea. I wonder what is on the other side of the wall? A pool? A patio with fabulous modern furniture and containers? There is a rectangular reflecting pool under the front windows. And even a group of matching raised…

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