Every garden should be edged to look neat and finished. Garden borders also ensure functionality by keeping the grasses out of the garden beds.
Borders come in different materials, but today, we are going to focus on those made with gravel. Check out our 15 Creative Gravel Border Ideas collection To Beautify Your Garden and Landscape.
1. Raised Garden Bed Edging The Fence
If you like the rustic look of this beautiful garden border, you can recreate it in your backyard easily.
Get wooden slats to make the raised bed, plant the varieties you like, and then cover the soil with these Scottish pebbles.
2. Gravel Walkway Crossing The Backyard
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Change the entire look of the garden with a new path from gravel coating the soil between metal sheet borders.
The path leads to a cute cottage gazebo and branches out to the garden beds to ensure easy maintenance.
3. Gravel Walkway With A Fountain
The gravel path in this garden idea is outlined with pavers that complement the concrete foundation of the fountain in the center.
The garden features an English layout with plenty of evergreen bushes and trees.
4. Gravel Edging The Gardens
This lawnless garden gives an idea of what material can be put in place of the grass.
Gravel is the perfect solution that minimizes garden maintenance, provides contrast, and also a solid base to step on and walk through the garden.
5. Gravel And Mulch Garden Border
The garden border in this image features a combination of mulch and white pea gravel.
The texture and size of the components of both materials allow for interesting patterns of the border between the plants and the walkway.
6. Pea Gravel Garden Border
This border is both functional and visually interesting.
The white pea gravel is shaped in a wide strip between a perfectly maintained lawn and a lavender garden bed.
7. Gravel Backyard
In this idea, gravel is more than a border.
Gravel is chosen to cover the entire backyard without garden beds. Garden beds are raised above the gravel base and separated by wooden posts.
8. Gravel Border Between Flower Garden And Lawn
Gravel is the perfect material to enhance the decorative look of a curved garden border.
The border is lower than the lawn and paver garden edge, and thus, it stands out as a separate garden element.
9. Gravel Layer On The Backyard
This gravel backyard section transitions between a patio covered with stone slats and a garden bed with shaped boxwood shrubs.
The location of this section supposes trespassing heading to the seating area, so gravel is a cost-effective and beautiful surface for such purposes.
10. Gravel Border Between Raised Garden Beds
The beautiful contrast the gravel layer creates in this small garden layout makes the garden bed’s rusty metal sheets stand out.
The plant varieties for this tiny backyard are succulents and ornamental grasses in the raised garden beds and roses as border flowers.
11. Cottage Garden With Gravel Borders
The gravel walkway defines the space between sections of the cottage garden filled with ornamental, traditional, and modern species.
The gravel perfectly fits the casual and calm atmosphere of this countryside property.
12. Gravel And Tiles Walkway
Gravel is also used in walkways in combination with wooden or stone slats. The gravel is not only a filling between the stepping stones.
It is a drainage layer that ensures the right amount of water for the adjacent edging garden.
13. Curved Gravel Border
Gravel in this garden layout idea is not only a border of a lawn section. It functions also as a top surface of the garden bed with a curved shape.
The white color of the crushed stones makes the gravel stand out.
14. Border From Gravel And Flag Stones
There is no doubt that there isn’t a better walkway filling than gravel. This inspiring garden idea matches gravel with flag stones used as stepping stones.
The gravel walkway also acts as a border between rock gardens.
15. Gravel Border Between The House And The Lawn
This landscape idea visually separates the backyard into sectors: a pea gravel walkway, a lawn, a garden bed under a tree, and edging garden beds.
The white pea gravel works amazing with the white siding of the house and the lush maintained greenery.
