If you’ve recognized the instant charm that garden bridges lend to any outdoor area, you may have begun to wonder what one would look like in your yard. Maybe the cost of installing a pond has held you back. In your mind, you can only picture a bridge spanning a pond, river, or creek. But you can use garden bridges as accents without installing a pond or any waterway at all.
For instance, you can connect two flower beds with a bridge. You can install flower beds in the middle of your yard, not just right against your house. Mark two round or oblong shapes in your lawn. Cut up the soil in the areas you marked. Use a shovel to dig up a couple feet of soil and cut up the chunks. Place some sort of edging material around the boundary of each bed to separate it from the lawn. The edging could be a plastic garden edger, a row of rocks, stacked bricks, pieces of discarded railroad ties, or whatever else you can imagine. If you want to spend less time weeding, you can install a flower bed liner before you plant your flowers. After you plant, mulch the beds. You will install the bridge to connect the two beds you’ve created
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