Edger blocks used in one of our original flower beds.
When Betsy and I first saw the place that is now our home, we fell in love with the house. The yard was okay — the landscaping consisted primarily of grass in the yard and an overgrown rock garden. That didn’t really bother us, since we would only be able to get to the house a couple of weekends a month.
We moved to the Glade in 2003, but since I was still working, we didn’t get to do much landscaping. But by the spring of 2004 we were ready to begin some landscaping of our own.
One of our first projects was to build some circular flower beds around our lamp post and two trees in our front yard. We used edger blocks to build the beds as you can see in the picture above. The edger blocks seemed to do the job and we were able to build the beds fairly easily and quickly.
Our next project was much bigger — to control erosion on the side of the house we built a long flower bed into the side of the hill. For that project we used retaining wall blocks. It took us over a year to finish that bed, but it was finally done and we were happy with the looks of the bed.
Our first rebuilt bed.
But now I have to go back to those original beds. Over the past four years the edger blocks have spread apart and even fallen a time or two. So now I’m in the process of replacing the edger blocks with retaining wall blocks in those three beds. I’ve got one done, as you can see from this second picture. Two more to go — I wonder will need to be done after that?
Tags: Landscaping, Yard
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