Novice gardener need advice on lawn edging!!!

[Dingle]

Please can anyone advise!! Don't venture here very often!

Currently we have raised borders in our garden using those log rolls. They have been there a few years and have started to rot in places. I also want to take the borders back a bit- they are too deep for me to maintain a lot of my plants are getting trampled by the children.

I want to try to make the garden a bit more "easy maintenance" as I just don't have the time to keep it as I would like it to look.

We are looking at various edgings for borders and came across this Smartedge

I know it would mean a lot of preparations digging out some of the borders, but has anyone used this and is it any good?

Any more ideas please- we need to think quite carefully about safely as our DD has Down Syndrome.

Anyone?????

We have some of this ready to go down in our garden when the turf is a bit more established. It was recommended by our garden designer for keeping the edges of the formal lawns neat. Our planting will be lavender and other stuff I expect will come over the edges of the beds a bit and cover it.

looks good, i've got some of those rotting log rolls in the garden they get quite dangerous too when they start to fall apart

if your beds are raised above the grass this isn't going to work - you would have to take the beds down to grass level and then have a little valley between the grass and the bed.

do you really need any edging at all? i have a little valley between the bed and the grass. It's a very economical option! It gets straightened up once a year and clipped every so often. It's no more work than weeding the beds. and it's a nice soft edge to fall on.