AboutMarc Chapelle, ASLA Expertise As a licensed Landscape Architect, I am available to answer general questions about style and design, ideas and suggestions for site amenities, larger site-planning issues, or recreational and park design. I prefer you ask somebody else why your petunias are not as perky as they should be...I'd LOVE to tell you how can use those petunias to increase your home's value!
Experience Member, American Society of Landscape Architects(ALSA); My clients are mostly contractors, developers and local civil engineering/architecture firms, plus the occasional homeowner. I am currently located in the dry Great Basin area (Reno/Sparks), so use of landscape materials OTHER than plants is emphasized. As a licensed Landscape Architect on the East and West Coasts, I have been in practice over 18 years. My website: DesertLA.com
Question I recently "installed" rubber mulch in shrub beds, etc, but am suffering with some areas where rainwater runoff down driveway and walkways, is taking some off and away. Would edging of some sort create the "barrier" I might need to prevent this?
Answer Yes - Any sort of edging would help with this problem. There are so many choices. I usually specify a commercial-grade edge restraint, made by Oly-Ola (www.olyola.com), but just as handy are some more creative and less "institutional" solutions such as brick, concrete, and wood.
For help and ideas, go to DIYNetwork (www.diynetwork.com/diy/gardening) and search for "garden edging" if you want to do it yourself. If you are more of visual person like me, I'd go to Google Images for great ideas,(images.google.com) and type in the same search words...
Lots of options, and congratulations on chosing a recycled material that won't blow away in the wind - it will just float away in the rain! ~M
