Inspiration and Ideas on Edging - Via Moxie Gardens YouTube - November 2024

With the growing season winding down, I'm turning my attention to a couple of things:  chronicling the lessons learned from this past season AND thinking about what I could do NEXT season.  This post is to put down a marker for next year - with something I've come across via YouTube:  Edging.  

I've posted some photos/inspiration of edging over the years including this metal edging from Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, this metal vs. brick edging view in 2019 and this boulder edge at a nursery.  

Moxie Gardens is a YouTube Channel of a gardener/landscaper who lives in Kansas (I think) and has built a personality-heavy backyard garden with LOTS of unique touches.  One of them is his use of various types of edging.  Here's a video - and screenshot below - that shows how he used 4x6 posts cut-up to different heights to create a curved edging around his patio.  Here's the 275 second mark with this view:

Screenshot via Moxie Gardens video

And, here's another look at a different part of his garden where he uses the same idea - cut-off wood posts - but this time round ones.  It is at 14:24 mark:

Screenshot - of Round wood post edging via Moxie Gardens

Like I said earlier....Moxie Gardens is ALL-ABOUT garden personality.  I've written about garden personality earlier this year and even tried to add a little bit via my 'Feed Me' compost sign.

Moxie Gardens has a Moongate - I've admired those for a long time

In this other video - where he talks about moongate, at the 509 mark, he talks about his round ones.

Here's a few more screenshots from his edging videos - this one below shows how he put some gravel in front of the edging with perennials behind.  This is a nice look:

And...later in that same video he shows this view below - showing what the edging looked like when he installed it:

Screenshot via Moxie Gardens YouTube

At 15:51, he shows railroad tie version - same idea of using random heights, but all the same material/dimensions.  Below is a screenshot from 15:51:

Screenshot via Moxie Gardens YouTube

So...thinking about this.....Where could I use it?  Along the side of the house with the gravel path?

Around the firepit?  Against the boardwalk?  All of those.  

But, what about in the beds?  

In amongst the astilbes and/or understory.

Back in front of yews.

Along ib2dws.

And...along patio edge.

I'm thinking that the next time I place a delivery order from Menards, I should add 4-5 of these railroad ties or some 4x6 posts and have them delivered so I can cut them up for this kind of edging.