Edging your Bets

Everybody knows to plant the flowers in garden should be in beds. The traditional way is to make some soil a bit higher. And then we put some stones as a ‘fence’.

Now, a company, Boral Besser, produces garden beds and paths or build a retaining wall up to a meter high. The product is Garden Wall bricks. So, the newest, quickest way to edge comes.

The bricks are moulded in concrete with a roughened surface. Each brick has a lug at the back which locks into the next, giving stability for not much weight.

The bricks are not exactly like the real thing, Garden Wall blocks have a pleasing symmetry to make an architectural feature in themselves. The products are available in Sandstone, Limestone and Bluestone Brown.

The wall in the picture here is a strong focal point in courtyard renovation. The owner of the garden devised a year-round plan of blue, white and yellow (salvia, ageratum, petunias, alyssum), plus pots of the pretty pale pink Federation daisy called Sugar and Ice. In the background, are ficus Baby Ben, tree ferns, golden cane and scented Florida gardenia. 

Roof Garden

Living in the city means sometimes we don't have enough space for garden. Why don't we use our roof? Here is the roof in Jakarta. Garden surrounded by sky crappers.

Garden Roof in the middle of city. Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

The garden is so clean and wide. We can have lunch or breakfast here. However, Jakarta is hot. So you will have sweats during finishing your lunch here. 

Plant Pots in the Garden

Sometimes we want to have a clean garden. It means, we have garden with some stones, however we still want to have plants in the garden. We avoid the soil that will make the stone garden dirty. 

Some plant pots ideas

We can use some pots to put plants there. This is common in Indonesia. The plants we use here usually plants that need not the water much or minimum care.  


Here we can see some bonsai trees and a pot of succulent. They don't need so much water daily. Thus, the rest of water or soil don't make the stone dirty.