Brick walls and borders for your flower beds: be inspired by these fantastic ideas

While it is true that finding innovative solutions using an unexpected design can give an extra lift to the appearance of the furnishings in the home (as it does in the garden), it is also true that sometimes the solution that best suits a space can easily be a more traditional one. So, in the case of alternatives to choose from for bordering flower beds and erecting retaining walls in the green areas of the garden, it could be the case that there is nothing better than using simple bricks.

If we take into account the fact that, in reality, even simple objects such as bricks can be used in a less conventional manner, and that they offer a variety of different styles - depending on the materials and colors that were used to make them - then choosing them as focal point of a piece of landscape architecture in our gardens it is not a crazy idea.

Come to think of it, the typical color of bricks, the reddish hue (ochre), blends with most kinds of flowers and leaves - just like terracotta.

But to add variety to the theme, you can look for a particular type (and color) of stone that has been cut into bricks, and build a retaining wall for a raised flower bed using these.

If, on the other hand, the color that best suits the garden, (obviously taking into account the style of the house too), is gray, no problem! There are grey stone bricks available and even concrete ones that come in all sizes and shapes.

Bricks also integrate very well with wooden structures.

And even when you think about the types of paving, flooring or other ground coverings, there are few that cannot be combined with bricks: you just have to find the material with the most suitable shade of dominant color.

Building walls with bricks allows you to create borders of any shape and also allows you to insert niches, benches, stairways, etc ...

In the higher walls there are usually some spaces open between the bricks: they could become the cavities to be filled with plants suitable for rock gardens!

Bricks are also the perfect material for flattened borders, i.e. those at ground level.

And to deliniate curved borders, you can choose those bricks that fit into each other with rounded slots.

A row of vertical bricks that borders the flowerbed and then a strip of flat bricks contiguous to it, will allow you to cut the edges of the lawn with the lawnmower and without damaging the flowerbeds or having to resort to a weed wacker.

And for a border that is very different from the usual, but for a low price (of the various types of border stones, bricks are perhaps the cheapest and most durable), just stick them diagonally into the ground!

Do you like borders made with bricks?