Advice with this path to lawn

[Laurasanford111]

Hello

We have a woodchip path to the next part of garden, we have used wood as the border trim. I hate how structured it looks, when I tried to take it up you see the muddy edge side of the grass which will leak into the bark.. what else could I put here between the path and grass for a more softer look? I didn't want trim at all just a few planting bits to soften the look but yeah I'm not so sure, any advice would be great

Thanks

Could you grow something blousy at intervals that will spill over the edge to soften it. I’m thinking Cranesbill or a herb like Thyme? Lavender might get a big big but could be controlled.

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You could use broken stone slabs, keep the path edge straight, then the lawn edge would be irregular according to the shape of the bits of slab. Keep it no higher than the lawn, as you would want to be able to mow over it.

or you could take out a half oval of bed, about 1.5 to 2m long and 9.75 to 1m wide on the lawn side and plant with low creeping plants. Then the straight path would be a pleasing counterpoint to the wavy lawn edge.

Thank you @Stratocumulus I love lavender I just can't seem to get it to grow without killing it 😅 i am going to look at thyme I saw that in a garden between paving it looked lovely!

Thank you @MereDintofPandiculation with the first suggestion we need to keep the woodchip down because of the raised beds and have loads of grass in other parts of garden so wanted something a bit different in that bit but I like the second idea I am just struggling to picture it in my head 😅

I didn’t explain it well enough. Keep the woodchip. Line up your broken stone flags along the current line of wood, with the irregular bit sticking into the lawn. So you still have the woodchip path, but with an irregular stone edging on the lawn side.