How We Build
Foundation Planting Beds with Stone Edging
Front foundation beds edged in granite cobble or stone, with plant spacing set to mature size rather than nursery size.
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How this goes together
The bed line is the design
A confident curve or a clean straight run reads as designed. A wobbly line reads as accidental no matter what gets planted in it. We lay the line out with a hose and look at it from the street and from the front door before cutting, because a bed line that works from one and not the other is the usual mistake.
Cobble edging needs a base like anything else
Stone set straight into soil rolls out of line within a season or two as the clay moves and the mower nudges it. Ours goes into a shallow compacted aggregate trench so each unit is bedded and held. It is more work and it is the difference between an edge that still looks intentional in year five and one that needs resetting every spring.
Space for the plant it becomes
A bed planted to look full on installation day is overcrowded within three years, and then everything gets sheared to fit, which is how hedges go hollow. We space to mature width and fill the gaps with mulch and, where a client wants immediate impact, seasonal color that comes out later.
Three inches of mulch, off the stems
Three inches suppresses weeds and holds moisture through a Texas summer. More than that starts excluding air from the root zone. Piled against the stems or the trunk it holds moisture on bark that needs to be dry, which rots it. The mulch stops short of the plant, always.
Specification
- Edging
- Granite cobble or cut stone, set in compacted base
- Mulch
- Shredded hardwood, 3 in., kept off stems
- Soil
- Native soil, tilled and amended in place
- Plants
- Spaced to mature width, not to fill on day one
Services involved
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